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Source: Q Magazine (?, UK)
Issue: Date: May, 1994
Subject: Review - Sometime Anywhere
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THE CHURCH
SOMETIME ANYWHERE

The Church still inhabit that limboland of dream pop, where the Australian trio remain lost in clouds of both metaphorical and smokable substance. Two albums since 1990's Starfish, tha album that finally broke them, during which time they've taken stock of musical trends, especially at the slow, sultrier end of dance. But Sometime Anywhere is still a further refinement of the psychedelic louchness that has seen them grow into the space between The Only Ones and Talk Talk. The melodies are too soporific to penetrate deeply but you can still get heavenly- lost in several chorus lifts (the best being the sublime AOR leanings of 2 Places At Once, where songwriters Steve Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper sing different sets of lyrics) and textures that would shame a Persian carpetweaver.

Rating: 3 out of 5.

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