release date: Jun. 13, 1983
format: vinyl (821 046-1) / cd (1989)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [4,15]
producer: The Church; John Bee
label: Carrere Records - nationality: Australia
Track highlights: 1. "Fly" (4 / 5) - 2. "One Day" (4,5 / 5) - 3. "Electric" (4 / 5) - 4. "It's No Reason" (4,5 / 5) (video) - 5. "Travel by Thought" - 6. "Disappear?" (4 / 5) - 7. "Electric Lash" (4 / 5) (video) - 10. "It Doesn't Change" (5 / 5)
[ 1983 Steve Kilbey interview ]
3rd studio album by The Church following The Blurred Crusade (Feb. 1982) is the band's final studio album on the smaller label Carrere under EMI / Parlophone before the band became associated with Warner Bros.
Once again, the production sound has improved since the last release and here to a new stage with a stronger spatial sensation. At the same time, the band has added a greater touch of the neo-psychedelic (most pronounced on "Travel by Thought") and a progressive touch to their usual jangle pop. It is not really mainstream pop / rock but rather something of an experimental nature despite the preservation of relatively simple compositions.
Forced to choose just one of the band's many great albums, I would go with this one, as it is also one of my absolute favourites from the 80s. The album is a sort of a culmination of their early years - a period in which they kept refining their expression.
Highly recommended.
[ allmusic.com 3,5 / 5 stars ]
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