#9/1166
January 2 1986
Steven Kilbey
Unearthed
Genre: Acoustic sort of dream pop
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Swampdrone
I’ve had mixed feelings about The Church. Sometimes they are just okay and other times they are fantastic. But I’ve always felt that they were following in the footsteps of The Cure.
Here Steven Kilbey follows his heart to a more mellow and almost sweeter place and, in doing so, he belies his true influencers: Bauhaus. No, this doesn’t sound like Bauhaus but it DOES sound like what the Bauhaus guys will become, namely, Love and Rockets.
Perhaps Kilbey heart L&R’s Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven or maybe he was just heading in the same direction and Ash and J. I don’t know but this hearkens to that sound and I totally dig it. (“Transference” is one of the closest examples.
Another excellent Australian import.
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