Untitled #23 is the new album by the church. It's a haunting, dark, thrilling, ecstatic, melodic psychedelic journey in ten unforgettable pieces.

To put it another way, Untitled #23 is the latest instalment in one of the longest, richest unbroken streams of creative endeavour the rock'n'roll era has ever witnessed.

Steve Kilbey, Peter Koppes and Marty Willson-Piper founded the church in Sydney, Australia, in 1980. Their public life as accidental hit makers is on the record: Under the Milky Way galvanised the world 20 years ago, and again in 2001 when it opened the smash cult film, Donnie Darko.

Various hits collections attest to a distant era of similarly strange and subversive pop chart victories: The Unguarded Moment, Almost With You, When You Were Mine, It's No Reason, Reptile, Tantalised, Metropolis... all continue to appear, sporadically and often transformed, in the live shows that remain their life blood.

But the church has always been in a parallel orbit to the pop world, a self-generating and utterly engaging art-rock trip that is far easier to experience than to describe – even by their passionate legions of fans around the world.

Since the arrival of drummer Tim Powles some 15 albums ago, the quartet has hit on a peerless creative dynamic of amazingly rich and prolific dimensions, one that seeks no validation beyond the constantly evolving existence that now yields Untitled #23.