The music, off his new album Evangeline vs. the Machine, additionally features a choir of voices
Eric Church gave the reside debut of his new single “Arms of Time” on the 2025 ACM Awards, delivering a efficiency that included a pair of horn gamers, 5 back-up vocalists, and his personal band.
Church stored it cool in his signature sun shades on the ACM stage. He carried out in entrance of an enormous projection of an old-school clock and gears. A number of the viewers members enthusiastically bought to their toes whereas he was performing.
“Arms of Time” is the primary observe on Church’s new album, Evangeline vs. the Machine, a report framed by horns, strings, and a rousing choir on practically each music. It’s the closest Church involves giving followers one thing acquainted the album — a catchy, shiny, radio-ready anthem with a singalong refrain and shoutouts to acquainted classic-rock fare like “Hollywood Nights,” “Again in Black,” and “Even the Losers.” (Church did one thing comparable within the lyrics to his 2016 hit “Document 12 months.”)
Evangeline vs. the Machine additionally contains the studio model of “Johnny,” a music he carried out reside in Nashville final 12 months in any respect 23 of his To Beat the Satan residency exhibits at his bar Chief’s. The music, impressed by Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Satan Went All the way down to Georgia,” was the climax of the present, involving a “flash” choir that materialized seemingly out of nowhere to assist ship “Johnny” to the rafters.
Rolling Stone’s four-and-a-half-star assessment of Evangeline vs. the Machine hailed the LP as a “masterwork…that cements Church’s legacy as a try-anything artist, one with extra in frequent with, say, Dylan than his friends. It’s inconceivable to consider one other mainstream nation singer daring sufficient to emphasise French horn over electrical guitar on a major-label album.”
Church is ready to carry out Evangeline vs. the Machine in full throughout some particular exhibits in Nashville, London, and at Colorado’s Purple Rocks, earlier than launching his Free the Machine Tour within the fall.
