''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

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in Sweden,

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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)

References

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