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Track Listing
1. Aura
2. Ripple
3. Paradox
4. Lustre
5. Swan Lake
6. Feel
7. Mistress
8. Kings
9. Dome
10. Witch Hunt
11. Disillusionist, The
12. Old Flame
13. Chaos
14. Film
| Details | | Producer: | Gavin MacKillop, The Church | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Church: Jay Dee Daugherty, Peter Koppes, Marty Willson-Piper and Steven Kilbey.
After the brief misstep of GOLD AFTERNOON FIX (which still managed to feature some pretty dandy tracks) and the replacement of long-time drummer Richard Ploog, the Church returned with the epic (in every sense of the word) PRIEST=AURA. Though a couple of the songs fall a little short of the band's standard, PRIEST is a solid, instantly accessible album.
The seven-minute-long album opener, "Aura," is half the first-person narration of a soldier--a conquistador perhaps--and half a list of ethereal equations (the source of the album's title). "Ripple" is a vintage Church psychedelic pop, with guitars that soar and wheel about and Steve Kilbey's detached vocals delivering cinematic lyrics. "Kings" features two beautiful guitar lines--one echoing like slowly falling raindrops, the other understated and spacious. "Chaos" feels like a couple of songs very carefully edited into a surprisingly cohesive nine-plus minutes, featuring straight-ahead rock, pop, trance, and ambient sound sculpture.
Industry Reviews
3 Stars - Good - ..quite unbelievably windswept, it waxes sensual, textural and pastoral..
Q (05/01/1992)
..the Church make some of the most beautiful noise in rock...magnificent aural sculptures.. - Rating: A-
Entertainment Weekly (03/20/1992)
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