Unorthodox

Cardboard sleeve reissue from Brand X features remastering in 2014 for the first time and the high-fidelity SHM-CD format.

This album combines Jazz Fusion with some elements of Progressive Rock, no doubt influenced by drummer Collins and shows extensive use of improvisation in the extended pieces, which is common in both genres of music. Collins drum work is very fast and rhythmic and show a difference in his style from his main band Genesis. Tracks like “Nuclear Burn” and “Smacks of Euphoric Hysteria” are really a showcase for his drum work. John Goodsall’s guitar plays a primarily melodic element, yet he dallies with the solo lines of guitar and intricate off-kilter themes on the second song “Euthanasia Waltz”.

The Church - Further / Deeper (2015) {Unorthodox UNORTH1CD}
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Rock / Neo-Psychedelia / Alternative / Indie

The Church continue their never-ending exploration of inner space on 2014's Further/Deeper, the Australian group's first album in five years, and an impressive return to duty after the band's productive run in the 2000s. Taking a few years to rest and recharge seems to have worked out very well for the Church; this album doesn't find the band exploring much in the way of new and unchartered territory, but it finds them embracing their trademark version of psychedelia – clean but misty, like the calm eye of the aural hurricane as the waves of guitar and keys swirl about – with a welcome sense of vigor and focus.

The Church - untitled #23 (2009) {Unorthodox - UNO 004}
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Rock / Neo-Psychedelia / Acoustic / Alternative / Indie

That slight trace of mystery and ambiguity in the title of Untitled #23 is a vague signal that the Church is returning to the spacy, hazy territory of their heyday on this, their 23rd album. The Church has never quite left this swirling psychedelia behind, but Untitled #23 has a delicate, suspended quality, floating at an elevated distance above earth. It's familiar yet not tired because the Church has a unified sense of purpose here, crafting tightly written songs that are then expanded and elongated when recorded, giving them an otherworldly quality.