{"product_id":"the-church-priest-aura","title":"The Church - Priest = Aura","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe Church named their eighth album after a mistake. Steve Kilbey misread a Spanish fan's English vocabulary notes, where \"cura\" means priest, and the phrase Priest = Aura stuck. What followed, in 1992, was the record Kilbey would later call the band's undisputed masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRecorded at Studios 301 in Sydney and produced by the band with Gavin MacKillop, Priest = Aura was the first Church album with drummer Jay Dee Daugherty, best known for his work with Patti Smith, and his loose, almost jazz-like feel opens the songs up. Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, and Marty Willson-Piper weave guitars into long, psychedelic, dream-pop tapestries on \"Aura,\" \"Ripple,\" \"Feel,\" \"Dome,\" and the epic \"The Disillusionist,\" across more than an hour of music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUnderrated on release, it is now widely considered the band's artistic high point, so much so that The Church performed it in full on their 30th anniversary tour in 2011.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis Music On Vinyl edition spreads the full album across two 180-gram black LPs. A Dutch import, out October 23. Reserve yours now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Alliance","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47673581109410,"sku":null,"price":47.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/the-church-priest-aura-black.jpg?v=1789600232","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/products\/the-church-priest-aura","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}