Hex [Cutout]

Steve Kilby, Donette Thayer | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 27, 2000)
• Format: Cutout
• ASIN: B00004UDAN
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #710,843 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Diviner

2. Hermaphrodite

3. Ethereal Message

4. Mercury Towers

5. Out Of The Pink Sky

6. Fire Island

7. In The Net

8. Silvermine

9. Elizabeth Green

10. An Arrangement

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive, February 27, 2005

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Grace Dinges - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hex (Audio CD)

This isn't so much a review as a bunch of gushing words trying to describe how this CD makes me feel. I've been a huge Steve Kilbey/Church fan for over 20 years and just stumbled across this CD. Although Kilbey's dreamy voice is not present, the songs are great and Donnette Thayer's pure, crystaline vocals seep through the heart and soul and take one to a different world. Three of the best songs, In the Net, Silvermine, and Elizabeth Green aren't available for a sample listen so don't judge this CD by only listening to the tracks available.

This CD reminds me some of the Cocteau Twins, and my favorite Church music: Priest=Aura. Thayer's voice is divine.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Birth of Trip Hop!, November 13, 2000

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Thomas Izaguirre "ratravarman" (Edgewater, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hex (Audio CD)

I got this in 1989 at a Washington, D.C. bookstore when it first came out and found it an incredibly original piece, little suspecting the impact it would have years later. This one album and its follow-up "Vast Haloes," can be considered the earliest definite form of the genre now called trip hop. All the features are here: surreal lyrics, ethereal voicing, unusual arrangements, danceable ethnic rhythms, unexpected turns of musical phrasing. A side project by Steve Kilbey of The Church, he had his then love interest Donnette Thayer do the vocals to songs he composed that he felt were outside his band's range. He would later employ some of these experiments on The Church album "Priest = Aura" in 1992. If you want to see the kernels where My Scarlet Life, Portishead, and even Dead Can Dance started, check this out.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Electronic Church with a singing angel, July 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Hex (Audio CD)

The Church's Steve Kilbey teams up with silken-voiced Donette Thayer for the first of two wonderful albums. This is the starker of the two, with spacious, atmospheric arrangements that blend traditional acoustic & electric guitars with cavernous electronic textures. Kilbey's songwriting is strong throughout, with instant classics like "Ethereal Message", "Diviner", and "An Arrangement" standing out as great 'pop' songs, and "Out of the Pink Sky" and "Mercury Towers" taking more darkly passionate directions. Donette's voice is just spellbinding, and combined with Kilbey's lush layers of instruments, makes for a wonderful listening experience. An overlooked gem.