Back with Two Beasts

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Back With Two Beasts
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Studio album by
The Church
Released4 November 2005
Genre Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic rock, dream pop
Label None (original)
Unorthodox (reissue)
Producer The Church
The Church chronology
El Momento Descuidado
(2004)		Back With Two Beasts
(2005)		 Uninvited, Like the Clouds
(2006)

Back With Two Beasts is the nineteenth album (and fourth collection of outtakes) by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church, released in November 2005. [1] The material was recorded during the Uninvited, Like the Clouds sessions but released first, as a teaser for that album, and was originally only available from the band's website or at their gigs. It was re-released by Unorthodox Records in 2009. [2] The title is a play on the euphemism for sexual intercourse, "the beast with two backs", to which both of the track titles on the band's previous self-released album, Jammed , also referred.

The Church (band) Australian rock band

The Church, an Australian alternative rock band, formed in Sydney in 1980. Initially associated with new wave, neo-psychedelia and indie rock, their music later came to feature slower tempos and surreal soundscapes reminiscent of dream pop and post-rock. Glenn A. Baker has written that "From the release of the 'She Never Said' single in November 1980, this unique Sydney-originated entity has purveyed a distinctive, ethereal, psychedelic-tinged sound which has alternatively found favour and disfavor in Australia." The Los Angeles Times has described the band's music as "dense, shimmering, exquisite guitar pop".

<i>Uninvited, Like the Clouds</i> 2006 studio album by The Church

Uninvited, Like the Clouds is the 20th album by the Australian alternative rock band The Church. It was released in Australia on 20 March 2006 and internationally on 17 April.

MGM Distribution

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Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Kilbey/Koppes/Powles/Willson-Piper

  1. "Snowfaller" – 5:41
  2. "Pantechnicon" – 6:22
  3. "Unreliable External" – 5:02
  4. "Pearls" – 6:36
  5. "Saturation" – 5:42
  6. "Heading South" – 4:37
  7. "Ionian Blues" – 3:40
  8. "Anthem X" – 5:48
  9. "Night Sequence" – 20:01
  10. "I Don't Know" – 2:01

Personnel

Steve Kilbey Anglo-Australian singer, song writer and bass guitarist

Steven John Kilbey is an English-Australian singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for the rock band, The Church. He is also a music producer, poet and painter. As of October 2014, Kilbey had 750 original songs registered with Australian copyright agency Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).

Peter Koppes Australian musician

Peter Koppes is a guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of Australian independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica. He has also released various solo albums and various recordings with his group The Well (1989-1995.) Koppes lives on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland where he also produces albums and conducts seasonal 'song writing' and 'performance for demo recording' short courses at Nambour TAFE, as well as offering private tuition in guitar, drums and song writing. His daughters are Tatiana 'O' Koppes and Neige Koppes who have their own band, Rain Party.

Tim Powles Australian musician

Timothy Guy Gerard Powles is a New Zealand music producer and artist. Also known as "timEbandit" Powles, his main instrument and first love was the drums and percussion in general, though over time he's become a dab hand on a medium-sized pile of instruments and gadgets, not to mention the studio itself- and virtual instruments as they occur.

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References

  1. ↑ Pat (13 November 2005). "Back with Two Beasts". Shadow Cabinet (Brian Smith). Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  2. ↑ The Church (2009), Back with Two Beasts, Unorthodox. National Library of Australia , retrieved 17 July 2014
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