The Australian band The Church will release their new album Lacuna via Cooking Vinyl on October 30. It was announced with the single Western, backed with the B-side Martian Skyline; before that, in November 2025, the track Sacred Echoes (Part Two) was released. According to OndaRock, the record is set to move once again within the band's most characteristic territory — layered guitars. OndaRock ↗
Western grew out of Steve Kilbey's childhood memories, more precisely out of the television westerns he watched as a boy. "It's a story without head or tail that jumps from one side to the other, carefree and uncomplicated," is how the bassist, singer and founder of the band describes it. "When I was a kid, there was nothing on TV but westerns, so I let it all sink in — and this is what came out of it." OndaRock ↗
Yet the band is still defined to this day by a single song: Under the Milky Way from 1988. Far Out Magazine ranks it among typical cases of the "one-hit curse" — a song that made the band famous while at the same time pushing the rest of its catalogue into the background. Far Out Magazine ↗
Under the Milky Way, Reptile and Metropolis are now available with lyrics on SuperMusic.cz.
Illustrative photo: The Church. Photo: Anna Hanks / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
The Church announced the album Lacuna. The single Western grew out of the westerns of Kilbey's childhood
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