Thursday, September 07, 2017

The Church to release new album on October 6; Tour begins tomorrow (Sept. 8, 2017)

I am very excited to see The Church is set to issue more new music...


The Church To Release New Album
Man Woman Life Death Infinity
on October 6, 2017


North American Tour Begins This Friday, Sept. 8, 2017
New Single “Undersea” Out Tomorrow
 

September 7, 2017 – Another Century, another dream, another album from a band that's in too deep to go anywhere but ever closer to the other side. Man Woman Life Death Infinity is the 26th album by the Church and will be released on October 6, 2017.
 
The album is their second with the rejuvenated line-up Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles and Ian Haug.
 
The epic return of 2014's critically lauded Further/ Deeper blossomed into a road-hardened beast over four tours of the USA, two back home in Australia, and a new career high in front of 20,000 Spanish fans on a lap of Europe.
 
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.
 
"Music is like inner space and we're astronauts," says guitarist Koppes, who co-founded the Church in Sydney in 1980. "It's a spellbinding thing. It's hypnotizing. That's why people like it. It takes them into another world and we're here to open those doors."
 
"This is the Church's water record," says Kilbey, singer, lyricist and bassist. "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."
 
The band will release the deeply chiming second single ‘Undersea’ beginning tomorrow morning.  The track is the ominously descending result of Kilbey's suggestion that the band should pretend to be another one altogether, like Sgt. Pepper wilfully choosing the brown acid.
 
"Tim borrowed my son's little electronic drum kit," Haug reveals, "so we had a mutated kit, half acoustic/ half electric, and we were just firing off each other.”
 
"Peter is like the mad professor of guitar theory. I've learned a lot from him over the last few years but I'm not trying to analyze the harmonic integrity of anything. If it sounds good, I'll keep going down that path. I think we complement each other really well in that way."
 
Fans who pre-order the album will receive both “Undersea” and “Another Century” as instant grat tracks.
 
The Church begin an extensive 29-date North American tour in support of Man Woman Life Death Infinity beginning this Friday on September 8th in Portland, OR.  Special guests The Helio Sequence will be direct support on all dates. 
 
Man Woman Life Death Infinity Track Listing
  1. Another Century
  2. Submarine
  3. For King Knife
  4. Undersea
  5. Before The Deluge
  6. I Don’t Know How I Don’t Know Why
  7. A Face In A Film
  8. In Your Fog
  9. Something Out There Is Wrong
  10. Dark Waltz
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The Church North American Fall Tour With Special Guest The Helio Sequence
9/8/2017          Portland, OR               Revolution Hall          
9/9/2017          Seattle, WA                 Neptune Theater         
9/10/2017        Vancouver, BC            Rickshaw Theater
9/12/2017        Sacramento, CA          Harlow's         
9/13/2017        Santa Cruz, CA           The Catalyst   
9/14/2017        San Francisco, CA      The Fillmore   
9/15/2017        Los Angeles, CA         Fonda Theater
9/16/2017        San Diego, CA            The Music Box          
9/18/2017        Austin, TX                  3Ten   
9/19/2017        Dallas, TX                   Kessler Theater
9/20/2017        Houston, TX               Heights Theater          
9/22/2017        Pensacola, FL              Vinyl Music Hall       
9/23/2017        Orlando, FL                The Social      
9/24/2017        Atlanta, GA                 City Wintery   
9/25/2017        Asheville, NC             The Grey Eagle          
9/27/2017        New York, NY           Le Poisson Rouge      
9/28/2017        Brooklyn, NY             The Bell House          
9/29/2017        Natick, MA                 TCAN Center For The Arts   
9/30/2017        Newton, NJ                 Newton Theatre          
10/1/2017        Washington, DC         9:30 Club
10/3/2017        Philadelphia, PA         Union Transfer
10/5/2017        Detroit, MI                  Magic Stick    
10/6/2017        Chicago, IL                 Park West       
10/8/2017        Minneapolis, MN        Cedar Cultural Center
10/10/2017      Omaha, NE                 The Waiting Room     
10/11/2017      Denver, CO                 Gothic Theater
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     

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