The essence and appeal of The Church has always been its two main songwriters Steve Kilbey and Marty Willson-Piper. Now, as its only remaining original members, Kilbey and Willson-Piper have written, performed and recorded Sometime Anywhere, one of the band's most welcome and solid releases. Sometime Anywhere (a play on Todd Rundgren's Something Anything?) is an epic of sorts, spanning nearly 77 minutes, with 10 of its songs drifting along at five minutes and beyond. For the most part, the open structures of the songs suit The Church's trademark guitar figures, which build large atmospheres from layers of strummed and picked six- and 12-string guitars. Only songwriters of considerable talent can hold the interest of a listener for more than an hour these days, and Sometime Anywhere, while mostly a mid-tempo record, is time well spent-a credit to the mature melodic sense of the Kilbey/Willson-Piper team. Spend Sometime with: "Loveblind," the edgy "The Maven," "Angelica," "Two Places At Once" and "Dead Man's Dream."

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