Aussie psychedelic dream pop architects reach the peak of their prolific late career run with shockingly great tunes. It’s an interesting time to be a fan of The Church. For a long time I kept things ...

Classic Purveyors Of Shimmering Atmospherics Return True To Form

Australian music veterans The Church have entered their fifth decade on the scene and mark the occasion with the release of their twenty-eighth LP, Lacuna later this week! The band is legendary not on...

Will no-one think of the poor music reviewer? Steve Kilbey’s prolific output is matched only by the sheer quality of his songwriting, whether with The Church, solo or in collaboration with others. Having been involved with Backseat Mafia for the last 13 or so years, I have well and truly reached the limits of my vocabulary in finding new ways to laud his work. It really is exhausting. And now there’s The Church’s 28th studio album, ‘Lacuna’: a straw that could well break the figurative camel’s back. I mean, there are seventeen songs to cover, and on just the first listen every one is a musical and lyrical wonder.

(Photo Credit - Adam Nicholas)We had a chance to chat with Ian Haug (guitars/backing vocals) of the legendary Australian six-piece, The Church! Their new LP ‘Lacuna’ drops everywhere tomorrow! Check o...

It's Sunday night in Sydney, and we're all off to Church. But tonight's service comes with a 30-piece orchestra, a healthy dose of psychedelia and some of the finest songs in Australian rock history. The Church are presenting A Psychedelic Symphony, an ambitious reworking of their extraordinary back catalogue alongside the George Ellis Orchestra. And for a band whose music has always occupied a space somewhere between the earthly and the otherworldly, the orchestral treatment feels entirely appropriate. Led by the ever-enigmatic Steve Kilbey, The Church have spent more than four decades carving out their own corner of Australian music, their atmospheric guitars, hypnotic rhythms and cryptic lyrics earning them a devoted international following.

Few bands in modern Rock music have sustained a creative trajectory as bold, Atmospheric, and uncompromising as The Church. Entering their fifth decade of activity, the Australian neo-Psychedelic and ...

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The Church speak to Subculture about their upcoming Australian tour.

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