Australian legends The Church are back with the bands 27th Studio album Eros Zeta And The Perfumed Garden that they see as a companion piece to last years The Hypnogogue. For the full expression of the ideas on the two albums you can also get the Companion book Eros Zeta And The Hypnogogue that tells the whole futuristic tale at the core of the two albums.
Completist fans will also want the latest Kilbey Kennedy album Premonition K that is also out on Easy Action records. The band are Steve Kilbey, Timothy Powles, Ian Haug, Jeffrey Cain and Ashley Naylor the album was produced by The Church and Kip McClanahan. The bands current world tour concludes next May with three show in The Maldives.
From the opening Realm Of Minor Angels the listener Is drawn into the intricate world The Church create. The cd booklet proclaims major chords, minor angels and an indirect intervention. So no more reproach! A quote taken from this song's lyrics, the music rises and falls with lots of interesting detail coming through the more you listen.
Pleasure is taken from a monochrome palm tree, that is just part of the pleasures they pursue, although the close vocals are at times claustrophobic, they warn that if you pursue too much pleasure it will prove the root of all your misery, guitars rise and fall, Steve Kilbey's sonorous vocals make clear what danger you may be flirting with.
Amanita seeks to bewitch them with her crystalline beauty with her feather rods, filaments of the gods, how can you resist her draw, this slowly draws you into her web, will you be able to resist her charms, psychedelic psychodrama unfurls across your speakers.
They take us forwards to 2054 for glorious building, orchestral predictions for how things will be, if we are still around then, he thinks his guitar will still be in hock, like he is still living on a Chinese rock, only the strings make this feel quite peaceful.
Manifesto has chiming guitars, with an eastern feel, they tell us its time to ditch the accent and have another drink, allowing you to sail away with them. They have the sort of manifesto most of us would happily vote for.
The Immediate Future revolves around a crucial truth "In the future, the future will be as much trouble as it was in the past". thoughtful hazy beats, bass heavy, laid back capturing the worries we all have.
Sublimated In Song has sci-fi blips among the buzzed noises, slow deliberate drums, while thoughts of how Sublimated your life has become in the 2040’s post-apocalyptic landscape.
Song 18 is gentle, hazy lazy psyche rock for the dreamers. The Weather as ever is as frightening in 2050 as it is in 2024, they hear voices come through the howling wind of guitars, shimmering in the heart of the tornado.
Korea feels re-united full of peaceful happy people. Song For The Machine Age has a mekanik drum pattern, guitars fly around swirling into the electrical miasma, they try to navigate the Machine Age, all hail the machines.
Sleeping For Miles is a real lullaby, as well all need a good sleep on a regular basis, gentle acoustic loveliness. Last Melody is a eulogy for Eros Zeta as he exits the stage. A Strange Past has them delving into the deep history of the 2010's dark foreboding music predicting the coming cataclysm.
The album closes with Music From The Ghost Hotel slow ambient wavy guitars for the credits to roll over as they float off towards the 2060's.
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