Untitled #23
- The Church
- Band Name: The Church
- Record Label: Second Motion/Unorthodox
- Release Date: May 12, 2009
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They have done many good, verging on excellent records, over the past decade, but only this has the songs and the atmosphere to be placed next to their best albums.
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The collection presents Big Music on a manageable scale, and even if the songs reference fire, water and sky, the long-running Aussie quartet forgoes the kind of sonic grandiosity such subject matter tends to invite.
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8022 albums later, the Church give us one of their very best--meticulously wrought, mildly hallucinatory musicscapes marked by an unrepentant infatuation with fantasy and dreams, serendipity and fear, melancholy and hope.
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The album is at once sparse yet warm and layered, lush and thick lipped, engorged with beauty. The Church have proven yet again they are masters of dreamy and dark rock, prolific and inventive.
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Minor quibbles aside, Untitled #23 finds The Church doling out sonic pleasures with masterful restraint.
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70The Church are still producing at a high level, and Untitled #23 is a must for anyone who's followed them this far.
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AaronC10Magnificent once again. I just cant listen to it enough!
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