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All Music Guide

They have done many good, verging on excellent records, over the past decade, but only this has the songs and the atmosphere to be placed next to their best albums.

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Hartford Courant

The collection presents Big Music on a manageable scale, and even if the songs reference fire, water and sky, the long-running Aussie quartet forgoes the kind of sonic grandiosity such subject matter tends to invite.

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Prefix Magazine

The album is at once sparse yet warm and layered, lush and thick lipped, engorged with beauty. The Church have proven yet again they are masters of dreamy and dark rock, prolific and inventive.

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PopMatters

22 albums later, the Church give us one of their very best--meticulously wrought, mildly hallucinatory musicscapes marked by an unrepentant infatuation with fantasy and dreams, serendipity and fear, melancholy and hope.

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The Onion (A.V. Club)

Minor quibbles aside, Untitled #23 finds The Church doling out sonic pleasures with masterful restraint.

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Pitchfork

The Church are still producing at a high level, and Untitled #23 is a must for anyone who's followed them this far.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 14 User Votes

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Aaron C gave it a10:
Magnificent once again. I just cant listen to it enough!

richard m gave it a10:
4 lifetimes of gorgeous ideas distilled into this one (for a newer church album) abbreviated adventure. succint. yet transcendent. varied, yet cohesive.

Jyotirmaya D gave it a7:
Not as gorgeous as their previous "Uninvited like the Clouds" album, but it is also full of beautiful sounds which are like heavenly Church music!

juan a gave it a10:
Marvelous!!!

greg d gave it an8:
When your listening to this your listening to a sound collage 30 years in the making. I can still hear what I loved about this band in the 80's but its not stuck in the 80's -- or 90's for that matter. Instead they approached their art with integrity and created something new.

craig m gave it a10:
Sublime. Transcendent.

Brandon M gave it a10:
I have everything The Church has ever released and this is by far one of their best abums. While most of their albums are at least enjyable, this album is one of their best. Their previous albums seem to tool around with the sonic sounds and dream-like lyrics. Untitled #23 brings it all together in one near perfect package.

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