A year after their 20th full-length release, Untitled #23, Austalian heavyweights The Church played LA's Roxy Theatre Monday night as one of the first stops along their "An Intimate Space 30th Anniversary North American Tour 2010" tour.
They were poised to be the next U2 after the ubiquitous single "Under the Milky Way" took America by storm in the late '80s. That didn't happen, but despite internal strife, debilitating heroin addiction and the curse of grunge, leader Steve Kilbey and the Church are doing just fine.
Slipped Discs kicks off with Britpop princess Lily Allen, the late great Vic Chesnutt, the Balkan beats of [dunkelbunt], the hypnotic sounds of the Field and many more. All records that missed our top 60 list last year.