El Momento Descuidado

El Momento Descuidado
Studio album by The Church
Released 29 November, 2004[1]
Genre Rock
Length 55:21
Producer The Church
The Church chronology

Jammed
(2004)		 El Momento Descuidado
(2004)		 Back With Two Beasts
(2005)

El Momento Descuidado (a Spanish rendering of "The Unguarded Moment") is a 2004 album by The Church,[2] featuring acoustic versions of previously released songs and five newly written tracks. It is their 15th album of original studio recordings.

This album followed the outtakes compilation Beside Yourself, within only about a month's time. This time, the band decided to revisit past material in an all-acoustic setting, along with the inclusion of several new songs. For the first time in years, they also 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. The album included several new compositions alongside the reinterpretations of earlier Church material. 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-Between's 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]

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Track listing

No. TitleOrigin Length
1. "The Unguarded Moment"  Of Skins and Heart, 1981 4:06
2. "0408"    5:20
3. "Almost With You"  The Blurred Crusade, 1982 4:29
4. "November"    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 (album), 1988 3:44
9. "All I Know"    4:19
10. "Til the Cows Come Home"    3:15
11. "Tristesse"  Heyday, 1986  
12. "Under the Milky Way"  Starfish, 1988 4:52
13. "Invisible"  After Everything Now This, 2002 5:25
14. "Between Mirages"    3:18

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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Monger, James Christopher. El Momento Descuidado at AllMusic