CD: BLUE143.2
RELEASED: 2007
LABEL: Blue

01. Wide Open Road
02. It's No Reason
03. Reptile
04. Tantalized
05. Electric Lash
06. After Everything
07. Song In The Afternoon
08. Two Places At Once
09. Appalatia
10. Bordello
11. Pure Chance
12. Grind
13. North South East West
14. Comeuppance

The Church first ventured down the unplugged route a few years back with El Momento Descuidado (The Unguarded Moment), a superb collection featuring all-acoustic reworkings of many of the group's classics. El Momento Siguiente (The Following Moment) follows a similar path, this time via a more diverse set of gems from their illustrious body of work. An exalting cover of the Triffids' Wide Open Road opens the album forthright and is indicative of what's to follow. Its No Reason, originally off 83's Seance album, appears here tinged with cellos and violins, while the leisurely paced Two Places At Once off '94's Sometime Anywhere is brilliantly transformed by way of mournful cellos and piano stabs. From last year's Uninvited, Like The Clouds comes Pure Chance, which is given a boost by the addition of songbird Inga Liljestrom's angelic vocal lines. In between, tracks such as the slower paced, piano driven Reptile, the atmospheric droning of Tantalized and the haunting rendition of After Everything are all given new leases of life. Bolstered by the addition of three new tracks - the summery, jazzy groove of Song In The Afternoon, the murky cabaret vamp of Bordello and the gorgeous cinematic depth of instrumental Comeuppance - it all serves to highlight the group's brimming ingenuity.

Influences / Similar Artists:
The Church, Jack Frost, The Refo:mation, Isidore