Welcome - THE CHURCH

good music stays forever in our memories While Britain was awash in pop hooks, Australia had the neo-romantic elegies of Robert Forster's and Grant McLennan's Go-Betweens at their best on Before Hollywood (oct 1982 - mar 1983), and the smooth pop micro-symphonies of the Church. The latter began by taking melancholy, pathos and angst from the book of glam-rock and mixing it with the "jangling" guitars and the melodic progressions from the book of folk-rock, on songs such as Unguarded Moment (1981) and When You Were Mine (1982), dominated by vocalist Steve Kilbey. The atmospheric, oneiric arrangements of Heyday (winter / spring 1985 - jan 1986) reinvented their sound, emphasizing the semi-psychedelic counterpoint of guitarists Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper, for example on Under The Milky Way (1988). The more complex constructions of Sometime Anywhere (summer 1993 - may 1994), which was in fact an album of the duo of Willson-Piper and Kilbey, led to the superb quasi-symphonic synthesis of Magician Among The Spirits (Nov 1995 /? 1996 - Jun 1996), a production reminiscent of both King Crimson and Pink Floyd, their most versatile and intricate effort. The Hunters And Collectors came up with the inventive stylistic blend of The Fireman's Curse (summer 1983 - sep 1983) and with the acrobatic arrangements of The Jaws Of Life (jul 1984 - aug 1984).