The Church - Seance (Vinyl LP Baby Pink) A vinyl record partially pulled from its sleeve, showing a pink translucent record and a square album cover with a pink-and-black portrait illustration.
The Church - Seance (Vinyl LP Baby Pink) Album cover art by 'the church' for thier album 'Seance', featuring a high-contrast pink and black graphic portrait of a woman's face holding a flower, with the artist and album titles in white text.

The Church - Seance (Vinyl LP Baby Pink)

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Shoegaze & Dream Pop · Alternative

180g Baby Pink Vinyl • 2024 Reissue

The snare fills on ‘Electric Lash’ crack through a wall of gated reverb. Across much of the record, keyboards push forward and the guitars pull back into shimmer and texture. ‘It’s No Reason’ brings a second voice floating in behind the lead. ‘One Day’ and ‘Now I Wonder Why’ carry the big melodies, the latter with harmonica threading through. ‘Travel by Thought’ breaks the spell entirely, four and a half minutes of improvised psychedelic noise. ‘It Doesn’t Change’ takes almost six minutes to close the door.

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Format, pressing and tracklist.

About the album.

Séance is the third album from The Church, a moody slice of Australian neo-psychedelia and dream pop first released in June 1983. Recorded at Studios 301 in Sydney and produced by the band with John Bee, it turned away from the bright guitar psychedelia of The Blurred Crusade, with keyboards taking a bigger role and the guitars often used for texture.

Steve Kilbey wrote every song except ‘Travel by Thought’, a group-credited psychedelic noise piece that points toward the long improvisations the band would explore from the 1990s onwards. Mixing engineer Nick Launay gave the record its divisive gated drum sound, most obvious on the single ‘Electric Lash’, and kept it in despite the band’s objections.

‘It’s No Reason’ and ‘Electric Lash’ became minor hits, and the album spent several months on the British independent charts. Songs like ‘One Day’ and ‘Now I Wonder Why’ have since become fan favourites. This reissue is pressed on 180g baby pink vinyl, released alongside the band’s 2024 Already Yesterday tour celebrating their first four albums.

If Séance draws you in, Heyday is the natural next step, and Starfish is where the band broke through internationally.

Tracklist.

Side A

  1. Fly
  2. One Day
  3. Electric
  4. It’s No Reason
  5. Travel by Thought

Side B

  1. Disappear?
  2. Electric Lash
  3. Now I Wonder Why
  4. Dropping Names
  5. It Doesn’t Change
Pressing details.
Format
1LP
Sleeve

Standard sleeve

Vinyl colour

Baby Pink

Label
EMI
Barcode

602458958355

Catalogue number
5895835
Condition
Brand new (factory sealed)
Original release
13 June 1983
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