MAGICIAN AMONG THE SPIRITS

Though many would give the accolade to Priest = Aura, which admittedly paved the way for this stylistic experiment, I'd have to say that for me the highlight of the Church's 1990s outputs is the magnificent Magician Among the Spirits, in which obsessions with occult, philosophical, sexual, and narcotic topics merge into an intoxicating aesthetic vision which sees the Church emerging from their jangle pop chrysalis entirely to deliver a neo-psychedelic masterpiece, taking them the furthest from the roots they'd ever gone up to this point and bringing the stylistic experiments of the decade to a wonderful culmination, despite the core band being essentially reduced to a duo by this point.