Heyday

Heyday is the fourth album by the Australian alternative rock band The Church, released in November 1985. This was their first chart entry in the United States, cresting at #148. The album marked the first occasion when group compositions dominated one of the band's releases. Steve Kilbey has said: "The demo situation was getting to us - me writing the songs on my eight-track and bringing them along to the band. It sounded too stiff. We'd reached this new energy level on stage which by far superseded anything we'd ever recorded, so we knew the only way to get sounding like that was for the whole band to write together." Robert Dean Lurie notes that "As the band began cutting the album at Studios 301, it became apparent that there had been a dramatic change in Steve's voice. Perhaps it was the extended break from performing, or abstaining from drugs, or the hours of yoga; in any case, Steve's singing was now much more relaxed and warm, and he possessed a wider, more dynamic range. For years, critics had pointed to Steve's sometimes dour voice as the Church's weak point. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyday_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)