The Church

Wandering in from pop's Australian fringes at the dawn of the last decade, the Church
spent the Eighties on the winding road of refined psychedelia. Led by dour bassist-singer
Steve Kilbey, the quartet juggled stylistic affinities for Syd Barrett, David Bowie, the Byrds
and the Beatles through an unchartable progression of albums before emerging, with the
slick Starfish (1988), as a comer in the easy-listening art-pop stakes. While Kilbey... More >