The Church - Two Places At Once

What this video is

Released in May 1994 as the lead single from Sometime Anywhere, The Church's ninth album, 'Two Places at Once' arrived at a moment of acute commercial and artistic pressure for the band. With founding guitarist Peter Koppes having departed and the group reduced to a two-piece core of Steve Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper, the album represented a deliberate pivot away from guitar-based soundscapes toward Eastern…

Why it matters

The video documents The Church at a pivotal genre crossroads: the neo-psychedelic guitar-pop of their 1980s peak being replaced by a more experimental, electronica-influenced sound. As one of Australia's foremost purveyors of dreamlike, lyric-driven alternative rock, their 1994 work occupies a…