Shriek: Excerpts From The Soundtrack Remastered

This soundtrack was created by The Church to accompany the short film Shriek: An Afterword directed by J.T. Lindroos, and based on the novel of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer.

What exactly is the Shriek release? The band have collaborated with respected Science Fiction writer Jeff VanderMeer in producing perhaps a new first, a Soundtrack for a book. In influencing each others work the two have come up with an intriguing and original collaboration. Atmospheric and sometimes stark music with lyrics taken from the text of the book, the two go together like some archaic crime, wild dark and visceral.
Enjoy them together or apart.

Steve described the album on his blog on April 9, 2008:

ooh strange stuff dark stuff
fevered music
whispery scrawly medieval bluesy
half songs
evil basslines
snakey guitars
tribesmen chanting
opera singers and mellotrons
too much in some places
a total aural trip
dig it or
you suck!
(just jokin')