The Daily Spin II

Churchill | The War Within

Welcome back to the Daily Spin. For the uninitiated, this is the series in which I review an album every day of 2025.

As was the case two years ago, my favorite song from each album can be found at the playlist linked here.

Album: The War Within (2013)

Artist: Churchill

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Thoroughly decent indie folk that rarely ever excites, but is rather content to plod along endlessly, as though nothing could possibly deter it from its singular goal of the end of the album.

It’s actually somewhat refreshing, in a way, to find a record so content to just be a record and little more - there are no grandiose statements, no wildly flowery interludes (nor the worse version, where a band tries to be comedic and doesn’t get that there’s a reason more groups don’t do that).

My biggest gripe is that this record gets worse as it goes on - hard to avoid on a short EP, I know, but it’s still not great that you’ve got a pretty outstanding track to open and then fling yourself off a cliff. Good music in the aggregate, but I’m left with a more bitter taste in my mouth than I think I expected to have.

Rating: 6/10

Best Tracks: Change

Worst Tracks: Lock Your Heart Down