The Church with Special Guest Adam Franklin

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While many of their contemporaries are coming out of retirement and dusting off their Eighties hits for reunion tours, the Church have never called it quits, instead continuing to evolve and experiment.  They’ll be bringing their new album, entitled “Untitled #23, as well as their past hits to The Ridgefield Playhouse. The show, which offers an AllShows.com VIP Party Pass (which includes a pre-show cocktail party, open bar, priority parking VIP seating and meet and greet with the artist when available!), will be kicked off by special guest Adam Franklin.

Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper founded the church in Sydney, Australia, in 1980. Their public life as accidental hit makers is on the record: “Under the Milky Way” galvanised the world 20 years ago and again in 2001 when it opened the smash cult film, Donnie Darko. Various hits collections attest to a distant era of similarly strange and subversive pop chart victories: “The Unguarded Moment,” “Almost With You,” “When You Were Mine,” ‘It's No Reason,” “Reptile,” “Tantalised,”

“Metropolis”... all continue to appear, sporadically and often transformed, in the live shows that remain their life blood.

But the church has always been in a parallel orbit to the pop world, a self-generating and utterly engaging art-rock trip that is far easier to experience than to describe – even by their passionate legions of fans around the world.

“Untitled #23” is their most accessible album in recent years, but it’s no less ambitious than recent efforts.  According to Rolling Stone magazine, “Steve Kilbey’s instantly recognizable voice and off-kilter phrasing cuts through even the murkiest passages, showing studio-smarts that are seldom seen these days outside of Sigur Rós recordings.”  By hanging everything on the faith that their best work is still ahead of them, the Church sound every bit as relevant now as they did way back in 1987.