The Church - Starfish
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Music CD Cover Artist: The Church Edition: Music CD CD Release Date: 1990-10-25 Music Label: Arista Soundtracks:
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Free Music Notes for Starfish Album
Free Music Review: The Church's most mature album
Hit: 5 Stars
Just like the Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, the Church have developed a sound and contine to mine that sound honing it and shaping it to the clarity of a fine diamond. If you're looking for something with a lot of change and development between one album and the next, you won't find it unless you listen for the subtle development of the band's melodies, playing and Steve Kilbey's sharpened ability to shape a lyric.STARFISH doesn't have the diversity of sounds and influences that HEYDAY did and what little it has in common with earlier Church releases like THE BLURRED CRUSADE is the basic blueprint for the band's sound. STARFISH shows unexpected fluidity and overall has a less stylized and rigid sound compared to their earlier albums. Comparing this album is akin to comparing the Stones' AFTERMATH to LET IT BLEED or BEGGAR'S BANQUET--the pattern for the suit has been cut, but putting it together and then actually seeing it on someone are far different experiences.
REPTILE, HOTEL WOMB and UNDER THE MILKY WAY TONIGHT represent some of the best, melodic songwriting the band has done. SPARK shows some of the added edge the band has developed on this album. Kilbey, always a stylized vocalist a la Lou Reed or Leonard Cohen, shows considerably range(for him) and a renewed melodic singing/speaking style that was a direct outgrowth of HEYDAY's more varied sound.
Within their stylistic limitations, the Church have grown enormously and this, one of their best albums, became an unexpected hit due to this growth. A pity they haven't added the acoustic version of UNDER THE MILKY WAY as a bonus track, though. Get this cd while you can as most of their material is beling deleted stateside by Arista.
The production is a bit more one dimensional than on some of the previous albums, but, again, this allows one to focus more on the songwriting and melodies vs. the overall sound. The playing throughout is top notch. Quite an achievement for this band from downunder.