El Momento Descuidado

El Momento Descuidado (a Spanish rendering of "The Unguarded Moment") is the eighteenth album by the Australian psychedelic rock band the Church,^[2] released in November 2004.

El Momento Descuidado
Studio album by the Church
Released	29 November 2004[1]
Genre	Alternative rock, psychedelic folk, acoustic rock
Length	55:21
Label	Liberation, Cooking Vinyl
Producer	The Church
The Church chronology
Beside Yourself (2004) El Momento Descuidado (2004) Back with Two Beasts (2005)

The album followed the outtakes compilation Beside Yourself by only a month. This time, the band decided to revisit past material in an all-acoustic setting, along with five new songs. For the first time in years, they performed "The Unguarded Moment" (albeit in strongly modified form), an early hit from which they had long distanced themselves. As a nod to the song's reappearance, they titled the album El Momento Descuidado—a rough Spanish translation of its name. A short all-acoustic tour followed the release in late 2004.

The album was nominated for a 2005 ARIA Music Award for Best Adult Contemporary album, but it lost to the Go-Betweens' Oceans Apart.^[3] James Christoper Monger at AllMusic praised the album's "intimacy and intensity", stating that "for musicians who have made a career out of dreamy, reverb-drenched landscapes ... that they've finally reduced these songs to the point of clarity is both triumphant and long overdue."^[4]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Origin	Length
1.	"The Unguarded Moment"	Of Skins and Heart, 1981	3:36
2.	"0408"	New song	5:20
3.	"Almost with You"	The Blurred Crusade, 1982	4:29
4.	"November"	New song	3:15
5.	"Metropolis"	Gold Afternoon Fix, 1990	3:21
6.	"Chromium"	After Everything Now This, 2002	3:44
7.	"Sealine"	Forget Yourself, 2003	2:39
8.	"A New Season"	Starfish, 1988	3:44
9.	"All I Know"	New song	4:19
10.	"Til the Cows Come Home"	New song	3:15
11.	"Tristesse"	Heyday, 1985	4:06
12.	"Under the Milky Way"	Starfish, 1988	4:52
13.	"Invisible"	After Everything Now This, 2002	5:25
14.	"Between Mirages"	New instrumental	3:18

Personnel

• Steve Kilbey – lead vocals, bass guitar, keyboards, guitar
• Peter Koppes – guitars, keyboards, bass guitar, harmonica, vocals (8)
• Tim Powles – drums, percussion, backing vocals
• Marty Willson-Piper – guitars, bass guitar, vocals (6 & 11)