Credits:

The Church

Description:

The cover may have looked like something of a goth record of the era, though then again not many goths would have used pink as the dominant color of an album. On this, the band’s third full album, the band consolidated the advances of Blurred Crusade well; if Seance isn’t as immediately striking as the first two albums, it still has its share of winners, starting with the opening “Fly.” Its string-synth touched, stripped-down arrangement almost sounded like something from the Chameleons’ quieter moments, but the following “One Day” returned the Church to more familiar ringing-yet-forceful guitar territory. One very curious thing about this song and many of the others on the album has to with the drumming — while Ploog very much remains the key credited drummer, here and on many other cuts nearly everything sounds produced by a particularly muffled drum machine. Whether or not one was used, the r