El Momento Descuidado

El Momento Descuidado
Studio album by The Church
Released 29th November 2004[1]
Genre Alternative rock, psychedelic folk, acoustic rock
Length 55:21
Label Liberation, Cooking Vinyl
Producer The Church
The Church chronology
Beside Yourself
(2004)		 El Momento Descuidado
(2004)		 Back With Two Beasts
(2005)

El Momento Descuidado (a Spanish rendering of "The Unguarded Moment") is the eighteenth album by the Australian psychedelic rock band The Church,[2] released in November 2004.

The album followed the outtakes compilation Beside Yourself by only a month. This time, the band decided to revisit past material in an all-acoustic setting, along with five new songs. For the first time in years, they performed "The Unguarded Moment" (albeit in strongly modified form), an early hit from which they had long distanced themselves. As a nod to the song's reappearance, they titled the album El Momento Descuidado - a rough Spanish translation of its name. A short all-acoustic tour followed the release in late 2004.

The album was nominated for an 2005 ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary album, but it lost to The Go-Betweens' Oceans Apart.[3] James Christoper Monger at AllMusic praised the album's "intimacy and intensity", stating that "for musicians who have made a career out of dreamy, reverb-drenched landscapes ... that they've finally reduced these songs to the point of clarity is both triumphant and long overdue."[4]

Professional ratings
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AllMusic[4]

Track listing

No. TitleOrigin Length
1. "The Unguarded Moment"  Of Skins and Heart, 1981 3:36
2. "0408"  New song 5:20
3. "Almost With You"  The Blurred Crusade, 1982 4:29
4. "November"  New song 3:15
5. "Metropolis"  Gold Afternoon Fix, 1990 3:21
6. "Chromium"  After Everything Now This, 2002 3:44
7. "Sealine"  Forget Yourself, 2003 2:39
8. "A New Season"  Starfish, 1988 3:44
9. "All I Know"  New song 4:19
10. "Til the Cows Come Home"  New song 3:15
11. "Tristesse"  Heyday, 1985 4:06
12. "Under the Milky Way"  Starfish, 1988 4:52
13. "Invisible"  After Everything Now This, 2002 5:25
14. "Between Mirages"  New instrumental 3:18

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ Hammond, Graeme (2004-11-28). "Church lets guard down". Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia).
  2. ↑ Holmgren, Magnus. "The Church". passagen.se. Australian Rock Database (Magnus Holmgren). Archived from the original on 6 October 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  3. ↑ "ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year 2005: 19th Annual ARIA Awards". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 13 June 2012.
  4. 1 2 Monger, James Christopher. El Momento Descuidado at AllMusic
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