THE CHURCH Untitled #23 CD |

True veterans

Finally I had the opportunity to interview one of my all time favorite 80ies bands. The Australian Shoegaze-Psychedelic-Rock band THE CHURCH started 1980 in the Australian city Canberra, in their first years they were probably one of the most fascinating, yet not very well-known New Wave bands. In 1988 their hitsingle “Under the Milky Way” was released and brought them some success in the charts. Their 1988 album “Starfish” is one of those fine musical moments in time that no band today will ever be able to recreate again.

Now they are back. THE CHURCH are about to release their fascinating new album “Untitled #23″. Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper continue to walk their path of athmospheric- psychedelic Pop. My personal favorite on “Untitled #23″ is definetly the wonderful epic song “anchorage”.

I had the sincere pleasure to ask Steve Kilbey a few short questions.

Steve, are you already getting bored with people asking you about the title of your new album? I mean it’s called “Untitled #23″, probably a lot of uninspired people find that worth joking about…

It’s funny that you call the album “untitled” and a lot of people ask what that means…but i don’t get bored with answering it. I usually make up some story about it.

Is there a story you would like to share concerning the song “Anchorage”, which is probably my favourite on “Untitled #23″?

I have never been to Anchorage, so I wrote the words to this blind. I knew this piece of music should become a song about a city. And Tim suggested Anchorage when we started. I just imagined all the rest, it’s like snapshots of someones fucked up life and love.

Would you agree that it gets more and more important for you throughout the years to create an album that works more as a whole, rather than have single hits on it?