''After Everything Now This'' is the thirteenth album by the Australian

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band The Church, released in January 2002. It was produced by group member

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and the rest of the band. Recordings for a follow-up album to ''

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'' (September 1998) turned out to be painstakingly slow due to numerous side projects and geographical locations of different members – with

Steve Kilbey Steven John Kilbey (born 13 September 1954) is an English born Australian singer-songwriter best known as the lead singer and bass guitarist for the rock band The Church. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter. As of 2020, Kilbey has r ...

in Sweden,

Marty Willson-Piper Martin Howard Willson-Piper (born 7 May 1958) known as Marty Willson-Piper is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter famous for his work as a former long-time member of the Australian ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, psychedelic rock band The ...

in England and the others in Australia. While taking time off to focus on solo efforts and other work – including a brief reunion of

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for Willson-Piper, the bandmates met across several separate sessions. Partially recorded in both Sweden and Australia, ''After Everything Now This'', appeared in January 2002 and saw a focus on the softer elements of the band. With only three obvious "rock" tracks out of ten, gentler soundscapes predominated. The successive world tour had the band in a more subdued setting as well, with most tracks performed primarily acoustically and featuring guest tour and session musician David Lane on piano. A double album of remixes and outtakes from the ''After Everything'' sessions was released in November, entitled ''Parallel Universe''.

Track listing

All songs written by Kilbey/Koppes/Powles/Willson-Piper # "Numbers" – 4:29 # "After Everything" – 6:01 # "The Awful Ache" – 5:17 # "Song for the Asking" – 5:08 # "Chromium" – 3:44 # "Radiance" – 5:59 # "Reprieve" – 5:40 # "Night Friends" – 7:20 # "Seen it Coming" – 4:58 # "Invisible" – 7:48

Personnel

– lead vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, guitar *

Peter Koppes Peter Koppes (born 21 November 1955) is an Australian guitarist, best known as a founding and almost-continuous member of the independent rock band The Church. He is a multi-instrumentalist, also playing mandolin, drums, piano, and harmonica. ...

– guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, backing vocals *

– drums, percussion, backing vocals *

– guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Chromium"

Additional players

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– Wurlitzer piano (1, 6 & 7) * David Lane – ambient piano,

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(2, 4 & 8) *Jane Seymour –

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(2, 3, 7 & 9)

Charts

References

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