Artist
The Church
The Church is an alternative rock artist from Sydney formed in 1980. 51 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Sydney · Best alternative rock albums
- 51
- Releases
- 1981–2025
- Active years
- 1980
- Formed
Artist
The Church is an alternative rock artist from Sydney formed in 1980. 51 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Alternative Rock · Sydney · Best alternative rock albums
Most popular
Starfish
1988
The Blurred Crusade
1982
Heyday
1985
Priest = Aura
1992
Of Skins and Heart
1981
Seance
1983
Man Woman Life Death Infinity
2017
Gold Afternoon Fix
1990
Sometime Anywhere
1994
Untitled #23
2009
After Everything Now This
2002
El Momento Descuidado
2004
A Box of Birds
1999
Hologram of Baal
1998
Uninvited, Like the Clouds
2006
Back With Two Beasts
2005
Forget Yourself
2003
Parallel Universe
2002
El Momento Siguiente
2007
Further/Deeper
2014
Hindsight 1980-1987
2024
Eros Zeta and the Perfumed Guitars
2024
Somewhere Else
2016
A Psychedelic Symphony
2014
Shriek
2009
Beside Yourself
2004
Sing-Songs // Remote Luxury // Persia
2001
Magician Among The Spirits And Some
1999
Magician Among the Spirits
1996
A Quick Smoke at Spot's
1991
Conception
1988
Remote Luxury
1984
The Church
1982
The Hypnogogue
Single · 2023
Sacred Echoes (Part Two)
Single · 2025
Praise the New Life
Single · 2024
A Strange Past (Radio Edit)
Single · 2024
No Other You
Single · 2023
Realm of Minor Angels
Single · 2023
C'est La Vie
Single · 2022
Formal Moccasin
Single · 2022
I Don't Know How I Don't Know
Single · 2017
Undersea
Single · 2017
Another Century
Single · 2017
Russian Autumn Heart
Single · 2016
Laural Canyon
Single · 2015
Vanishing Man
Single · 2015
Pangaea
EP · 2009
Operetta
EP · 2009
Pangaea - Single
Single · 2009
White Star Line / Gypsy Stomp
Single · 1997
The Church
The Fonda Theatre
Los Angeles, California, United States Of America
The Church is an alternative rock band which formed in Sydney, Australia in 1980. Initially linked in with neo-psychedelia acts of the period, their music later became largely defined by the interplay of guitarists Marty Willson-Piper and Peter Koppes coupled with the abstract lyrics of bassist/singer Steve Kilbey. Their debut album, Of Skins And Heart (1981), earned them their first radio hit "The Unguarded Moment". They were originally signed to EMI's Parlophone label, but record company dissatisfaction led to them being dropped overseas, which limited their exposure early on. After signing to Arista in 1988, they saw their largest international success with the album Starfish and the American Top 40 hit "Under the Milky Way" which resurfaced on the soundtrack of the cult movie "Donnie Darko". Whilst the band remain feted by their peers, subsequent commercial success proved elusive: 1990s follow-up album "Gold Afternoon Fix" failed to capitalise on their success, and the band weathered several line-up changes after its release, first losing long-term drummer Richard Ploog, then Peter Koppes following 1992s "Priest = Aura". That album baffled and confused many fans upon its rele…