Man Woman Life Death Infinity
{{Short description|2017 studio album by The Church}}
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{{Infobox album
| name = Man Woman Life Death Infinity
| type = Album
| artist = The Church
| cover = Man_Woman_Life_Death_Infinity_(The_Church_album_-_cover_art).jpg
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| released = 6 October 2017
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| genre = Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic rock
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| label = Unorthodox
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| prev_title = Further/Deeper
| prev_year = 2014
| next_title = The Hypnogogue
| next_year = 2023
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Man Woman Life Death Infinity is the 25th album by the Australian alternative rock band The Church, released in October 2017.
The album was the second by the band to feature the lineup of Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, and Ian Haug. Haug joined the band in 2013 following the departure of longtime guitarist Marty Willson-Piper, and, according to Powles, was "surprised to discover how much improvisation was involved in the writing process" of the band; Powles went on to note that Man Woman Life Death Infinity was a unique record for the band because prior to recording, they set aside time to structure the songs instead of relying largely upon improvisation during the recording process.{{cite web|url=https://www.australianmusician.com.au/tim-powles-the-church-the-making-of-manwoman-life-death-infinity/|title=TIM POWLES (THE CHURCH): THE MAKING OF 'MAN, WOMAN, LIFE, DEATH, INFINITY'|date=7 November 2017|publisher=}}
The album spawned two singles prior to its release. The first single, "Another Century", was released on June 2017.{{cite web | website=Slicing Up Eyeballs | title=Listen: The Church releases new song 'Another Century' off still-untitled next album | date=26 June 2017 | url=https://slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/06/26/the-church-new-song-another-century/ | access-date=2 June 2025}} The album's second single, "Undersea", was released on September 2017.{{cite web | website=Slicing Up Eyeballs | title=Listen: The Church, 'Undersea' – second single off 'Man Woman Life Death Infinity' | date=12 September 2017 | url=https://slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/09/12/the-church-undersea/ | access-date=2 June 2025}}
Critical Reception
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} {{AllMusic | class=album | id=man-woman-life-death-infinity-mw0003109083 | title=Review of Man Woman Life Death Infinity | first=Matt | last=Collar | accessdate=22 April 2019}}
| rev2 = Cryptic Rock
| rev3 = The Fire Note
| rev4 = Glide
| rev5 = PopMatters
| rev5score = 9/10{{cite web | website=PopMatters | title=The Church: Man Woman Life Death Infinity | last=Garratt | first=John | date=13 October 2017 | access-date=2 June 2025 | url=https://www.popmatters.com/the-church-man-woman-life-death-infinity-2497172566.html}}
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Matt Collar at AllMusic gave the album four stars, stating that it "sounds utterly fresh, even as it's in keeping with their early albums. Rather than backing away from the gothy, new wave psychedelia of their youth, just as they revisited The Blurred Crusade, here they've embraced that aesthetic and imbued it with the emotional maturity and poetic gravitas that comes with their decades-long space rock journey."
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes, Tim Powles, Ian Haug
| title1 = Another Century
| length1 = 4:42
| title2 = Submarine
| length2 = 4:53
| title3 = For King Knife
| length3 = 4:28
| title4 = Undersea
| length4 = 3:20
| title5 = Before the Deluge
| length5 = 5:11
| title6 = I Don't Know How I Don't Know Why
| length6 = 3:46
| title7 = A Face in a Film
| length7 = 4:11
| title8 = In Your Fog
| length8 = 3:58
| title9 = Something Out There Is Wrong
| length9 = 4:48
| title10 = Dark Waltz
| length10 = 4:33
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Personnel
Credits are adapted from the CD liner notes of Man Woman Life Death Infinity on Unorthodox.{{cite AV media notes | title=Man Woman Life Death Infinity | last=The Church | author-link=The Church (band) | year=2017 | publisher=Unorthodox | type=CD liner notes | id=UNO012}}
The Church
- Steve Kilbey – bass, Fender 6 guitar, keyboards, lead vocals
- Peter Koppes – acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards
- timEbandit Powles – drums, percussion, backing vocals, keyboards
- Ian Haug – acoustic and electric guitars, keyboards
Additional musicians
- Amanda Kramer – additional keyboards, backing vocals
References
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