You know, for some reason I've had the weirdest feeling like I need to get as far away from the current time and place as possible - or even not possible. All of a sudden Australia circa 1986 is sounding really good.You have to admire the work ethic of Steve Kilbey. If you overlay the discographies of his solo output and The Church, the better-known band he's fronted since its inception in 1981, it adds up to over three decades of continuous output. Highly impressive! Let's hold onto that impressed feeling for a while longer while we read some nice comments from the KCMU DJs of yore.
"Steve is from The Church. This is melodic ethereal type pop music. Very soothing vocals layered over subdued music reminiscent of jangly D. Column. Nice.""This is great. Far better than most Church stuff - hey! - I own it already. Nuff said."
"2-7 (Famine) has some cool bass in it. Good song."
"Hey, it rules! The 'voice' of the Church!"
"How is it," longtime readers of this series might wonder," that you've covered two David Sylvian solo albums, but not a single Japan album? Or even Rain Tree Crow!" You know, I have no good answer to that beyond the fact that this pulling-records-off-the-shelves game is a fickle one. Maybe I spent…
It's been four and a half years since I've talked about Sheffield's Hula, and there's still not much about them out there on the old world wide internet - except, perhaps, this charming little amateur doc from not long before the release of their double LP 1000 Hours.
