{"id":3015,"date":"2015-02-20T11:48:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2015-02-27T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T17:22:30","slug":"the-church-furtherdeeper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/the-church-furtherdeeper\/","title":{"rendered":"The Church <br>Further\/Deeper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The_Church_further_deeper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3016\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The_Church_further_deeper.jpg\" alt=\"The Church, Further\/Deeper\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The_Church_further_deeper.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/The_Church_further_deeper-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>The Church\u2019s music has always existed in a cloud of hazy guitars and dreamily sung lyrics, but as hinted at with its title, the band\u2019s latest threatens at times to disappear into the aether altogether. <i>Further\/Deeper<\/i> (Unorthodox Records) is the band\u2019s first without founding member and guitarist Marty Wilson-Piper, and whether or not as a direct result of his absence, is perhaps its most somnolent to date. Indeed, there\u2019s a daydreamed quality to many of the songs, like half-remembrances of some imagined scenario. With new guitarist Ian Haug (formerly of Powderfinger) taking part in the songwriting, the Australian band has seemingly indulged its quieter side, with cuts like \u201cLaurel Canyon\u201d vacillating between sparkling acoustic notes and extreme sparsity.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it\u2019s not like The Church hasn\u2019t explored such hushed tones before, and if anything, this is just a venture further and deeper into a pre-existing facet of its vernacular. And with the average song length hovering around the five-minute mark, it\u2019s obvious that this exploration was favored over writing songs with the pop potential of their mega-hit, \u201cUnder the Milky Way.\u201d Such openness to the possibilities is particularly evident on \u201cLove Philtre,\u201d a gorgeous cut that changes shape multiple times over its six minutes. \u201cOld Coast Road\u201d is similarly beautiful, with singer Steve Kilbey evoking bittersweet memories over swells of guitar. \u201cMiami,\u201d which begins with a slithery guitar line reminiscent of \u201cReptile,\u201d is perhaps the album\u2019s most enigmatic moment, an eight-minute song that shifts between blurry quietude and thunderous refrains repeatedly. It\u2019s representative of <i>Further\/Deeper<\/i> as a whole, which is an ambitious record made by a band not content to repeat itself ad infinitum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church\u2019s music has always existed in a cloud of hazy guitars and dreamily sung lyrics, but as hinted at with its title, the band\u2019s latest threatens at times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,1101,1129],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-album-review","tag-the-church","tag-unorthodox-records"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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