{"id":11506,"date":"2025-03-13T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11506"},"modified":"2025-03-13T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T18:40:11","slug":"music-review-church-of-the-sea-eva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11506","title":{"rendered":"Music Review: Church of the Sea &#8216;Eva&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FIONA-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11507\" style=\"width:635px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FIONA-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FIONA-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FIONA-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FIONA-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FIONA-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>review by Fiona Rae<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Eva <\/em>by <a href=\"https:\/\/g.co\/kgs\/aNp58Xw\">Church of the Sea<\/a>, releases on April 11th as the band\u2019s sophomore album under the wonderfully inventive \u2018doomgaze\u2019 genre. The album is hypnotizing in its heavy yet melodic electronic beats and esoteric lyrics. Created with the vision of portraying Eve of the Bible re-imagined as a celebrated rebel, vocalist Irene\u2019s voice is beautiful and haunting, sung both in Greek and English. There is an almost religious sensibility in the synths\/piano used, which ties together the storyline and also lends itself to being an assumably good soundtrack for the God of War games. The guitar distortion, choral echoes, and minimal drums marry the sounds of doom and shoegaze staples to immerse the listener into a shadowy, celestial soundscape. My favorite song is \u2018THE SIREN_S CHOICE,\u2019 showcasing the great riffs and gothic drama crafted throughout the album. This spring release, produced by Alex Bolpasis in Suono Studios, is one to look forward to if you\u2019re hoping to expand your musical tastes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Bandcamp: <a href=\"https:\/\/churchofthesea.bandcamp.com\/album\/odalisque\"><strong>https:\/\/churchofthesea.bandcamp.com\/album\/odalisque<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>review by Fiona Rae Eva by Church of the Sea, releases on April 11th as the band\u2019s sophomore album under the wonderfully inventive \u2018doomgaze\u2019 genre. The album is hypnotizing in its heavy yet melodic electronic beats and esoteric lyrics. Created with the vision of portraying Eve of the Bible re-imagined as a celebrated rebel, vocalist&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=11506\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Review: Church of the Sea &#8216;Eva&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-reviewz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11508,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11506\/revisions\/11508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}