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the church Release Video For ‘Undersea’

the church Release Video For ‘Undersea’. – Premiere on Yahoo!

26th Album Man Woman Life Death Infinity Out Now
On Tour in North America Now

October 10th, New York, NY: One of the most indelible, progressive and passionately admired rock bands of our time, the church release another masterpiece of sonic exploration, Man Woman Life Death Infinity. The ARIA Hall of Fame band’s 26th album is their second with the rejuvenated line-up – Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles and Ian Haug – and is released this Friday worldwide.

The band has unveiled a new video via a premiere at Yahoo! for the track ‘Undersea.’ Directed by Eden Mulholland, he talks about the video: “Originally conceived to be a hallucinogenic poolside scene that zooms in and out of the pixels of reality, then further inspired by the lyrics and an abstract response to each band members unique footage. By far the craziest and most fun piece of art I’ve made in a LONG TIME”. The band adds: ““sitar, sake, smoke and mirrors……ushered this song in from the ether… from the self shot footage that we each shot near water, Eden Mulholland has directed this into a honey drenched, “Wes Andersonish”, bees eye view of humans foraging through inner space”

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The past several years have been wildly successful for the church, pulling a 20,000 strong crowd at at Primavera Sound, a performance at SXSW, four North American tours and their first European tour in almost a decade. The band is presently touring in support of their new album in the states. Woven with classics spanning almost 50 years of underground glory, the set will feature selections from Man Woman Life Death Infinity, including the shape-shifting dreamscape of the first, exhilarating cut, ‘Another Century‘, and its imminent follow-up, new single ‘Undersea’: yet another new dimension of chiming strings and kaleidoscopic images.

Man Woman Life Death Infinity is where the revitalized quartet’s freshly tuned chemistry reaches a new potency and precision: ten songs, 45 minutes, and a quantum leap into unexplored territory as strange as it is irresistible. Written in two separate sessions in March across Ian Haug’s Airlock Studios in Brisbane and Tim Powles’ Space Junk Studios in Sydney Man Woman Life Death Infinity is the first full length since the early 90s where the band have collected their song ideas before hitting the record light and just ‘going with the flow’. Co-produced alongside long-term audio accomplice Ted Howard at Rancom Street Studios, Man Woman Life Death Infinity delivers a more succinct release than 2014’s Further/Deeper.

Singer, lyricist and bassist Steve Kilbey explains this 26th full length offering is the church’s ‘water record’. “I guess water is my element. I’ve always marveled at the sea and rivers and rain. It wasn’t conscious at all but on reflection, it definitely is a preoccupation on this record. What that means, I don’t know,” he says. “This is an album we’re really looking forward to exploring live,” he says. “The way I write lyrics is very stream-of-consciousness. I never question them until we perform live, so I discover them in time as much as the audience.”

Tour Dates:
10.10.2017 Omaha NE The Waiting Room
10.11.2017 Englewood CO Gothic Theatre
10.12.2017 Salt Lake City UT The State Room
10.13.2017 Las Vegas NV Brooklyn Bowl
10.14.2017 Phoenix AZ The Press Room

Site: https://thechurchband.net
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thechurchband
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thechurchband
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2ZfogSsOWP4mVfEqfpLXCt

“…the music of the church still sounds vital and challenging. They sound just as hungry and exciting as they did three decades ago.”
ABC News

There is nothing, or not much, that is obvious and instant about the church. Songs that at first pass you by flare into life once you’ve paid them proper respect and attention…no doubt why people care so deeply about them.”
news.com.au

Arguably one of the greatest Australian bands of all time.”
Tone Deaf

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