Tracklisting:
1. Numbers
2. After Everything
3. The Awful Ache
4. Song For The Asking
5. Chromium
6. Radiance
7. Reprieve
8. Night Friends
9. Seen It Coming
10. Invisible
The Church - 'After everything…now this'
After nearly 21 years, 15 albums and numerous tours around the world, The Church show no sign of slowing up. Once again Peter Koppes, Marty Willson-Piper, Tim Powles and Steven Kilbey embark on another enthralling phase of a fascinating journey, bringing us 'after everything…now this', their new album set for release in February 2002.
'after everything…now this' is a fresh but timeless combination of classicism and contemporary spontaneity that flows so unique to this four piece, self produced and grown in bursts over 2- 3 years, over 2 -3 continents. This is an album of bass warmth and melody, of no pretension, of understatement and lure. The Church softly explode once more.
In early 1999, bound for Sweden and set to record a "covers"
collection for Cooking Vinyl, The Church found themselves crammed into
Marty Willson-Pipers Ladbroke Grove apartment, perched betweens slabs
of vinyl, lava lamps and vintage guitars. Intent on following up 1998's
"Hologram of Baal", the subsequent session left the band
with hours of material, but failed to produce anything that survived to
be overdubbed and worked on, with the notable exception of the music bed
for the title track "after everything". The track expanded to
become a chiming progressive rock adventure, before being thrashed into
a different shape again as it was "road-tested" throughout the
USA and Australia when the band toured to promote the 1999 Box of Birds
covers collection, seeing a rare on -stage exchange of bass and guitar
by Steve Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper, a swapping of instruments that
has been going on in the studio between all four members for years, but
never before "live". Meanwhile new tracks "The awful ache",
"chromium", "night friends", "seen it coming"
and "invisible" were all jammed and tracked in Sweden.
The last three tracks recorded for inclusion on the new album ("numbers",
"radiance" and "reprieve") were essentially written
and rehearsed prior to recording, a first for The Church in a long time.
The recording itself was done at Garth Porters Rancom St Studios in Sydney,
which is Australia's very own Abbey Road. Over the last 10 - 15 years
nearly all recordings from The Church have arisen through a series of
jams and impromptu unrehearsed recording sessions, where first and second
takes prevailed. The lyrics and top half embellishments to these sonic
explorations have usually been simply overlaid. In fact, following the
"Box of Birds" sessions where the band absorbed and often assimilated
classic song structures of the 1960's and 1970's, The Church have adopted
a different approach to the writing and recording of the album, giving
rise to a new level of depth and maturity.
The band shy away from discussing specific meanings about individual
songs. In fact, The Church have a history of not including lyrics and
individual performance credits on CD liner notes - listeners are encouraged
to use their own imagination. The album has been produced by Tim Powles
and The Church, with all the final mixes by Tim from spacejunk.
Taken from the the label site cookingvinyl.com