Title: Essential
Review: This album is quite a change from its brilliant predecessor, but it is nevertheless another sensational success in what is getting to be a pretty long string of successes for the Church. If you only know of the Church from "Under the Milky Way", well, you don't know the Church. And you've missed their best work, over a decade's worth of brilliant albums. (This is not to knock the pre-Starfish catalog either, which is quite solid.) FY is the rawest album they've done in years, maybe ever, and has more bite and noise than we've seen from them lately. It isn't the downbeat jewel that we got with AENT, but it quickly becomes highly addictive. I find that the album works better with a slight reordering of the tracks, though obviously Sealine must remain the opening cut. But that's just my preference. If you're not already a Church fan, you should be. These guys are essential.
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