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25 Sep, 2015

Every Open Eye

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Every Open Eye

Chvrches release Every Open Eye, their second studio album, which is self-produced. The album’s title comes from the lyrics of the third single off of the album, Clearest Blue. Cook:

People don’t make albums any more. They make 11, 12 songs, and they put them out as an album but they feel like a greatest hits, or a playlist. I think I said that in reference to some contemporary pop albums that just sound like one radio hit after another. There’s no real ebb and flow, no sense of progression or telling a story, no exploration of multiple facets of an artist’s sound, just one attempt after another to deliver the hit. An album, in my opinion (and maybe this is an unfashionably traditional viewpoint), should have more breathing space, not be afraid to throw in some harder, darker, slower, longer pieces and explore a bit.

10 Sep, 2015

Clearest Blue

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Chvrches release the track Clearest Blue, the third single off their second studio album Every Open Eye. Doherty:

Clearest Blue was the 17th song we wrote, and it sort of informed the rest of the production. To me it came to define how the rest sounds. How is that? Well, it’s big and happy and sad and a banger.

CHVRCHES - Clearest Blue (lyric video)

12 Aug, 2015

Never Ending Circles

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Chvrches release Never Ending Circles, the second single from their album Every Open Eye. Mayberry:

When I look back at the first record, the songs I wrote about relationships on there were a bit more playing the victim kind of. I think there was a time and a place for that because that was what I was feeling at the time, but I guess now I feel a lot more positive about my personal life and I think it’s nice for me to be able to write about that as well as my bad experiences in a more assertive way.

CHVRCHES - Never Ending Circles (lyric video)

17 Jul, 2015

Leave A Trace

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Chvrches releases Leave a Trace, the first single from their second album Every Open Eye. Mayberry:

Leave a Trace is the middle finger mic-drop. It’s about that point where you’re like, There’s no point having this conversation anyways: There will be no resolve, I won’t feel better about it, you won’t feel better about it, no outcome from this will actually change my reality.

CHVRCHES - Leave A Trace (Lyric Video)

1 Aug, 2014

Lollapalooza

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Chvrches perform live during the 2014 Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, Illinois.

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2 Dec, 2013

Lies

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Chvrches release their single, Lies, which is originally published online as a demo track without being signed to a record label. Martin Doherty:

When Lies first went on the internet, there were loads of conspiracy theorists saying “Oh, they’ve signed this deal, or that deal, to get where they are; it’s all a big ploy’.” We were completely unsigned. We had no idea how it would go. We spent no money marketing the band. It was one person passing it to the next, or one blogger in their bedroom posting it up. Suddenly, it went everywhere. That’s something I’ll always be proud of.

23 Sep, 2013

Gun

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homepage_large.4fe8c81eChvrches release their single Gun. The single will be featured on their upcoming album. Lauren Mayberry:

The song isn’t really about guns per say. There’s a Scottish phrase where if someone’s a total ball-breaker, then it’s like, “she’s a total gun” and that’s what that is meant to mean.

20 Sep, 2013

The Bones of What You Believe

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Chvrches_-_The_Bones_of_What_You_BelieveChvrches release their debut studio album, The Bones of What You Believe. It features 12 tracks including the singles, The Mother We Share and Gun. Lauren Mayberry:

We put a lot of effort as to the record as a whole. We’re not a band that subscribes to the idea that we have 3 or 4 singles as the strongest thing and the rest is just filler. We don’t consider the album to be dead as a format, and we really sequenced the album in that way and spent a lot of time on every song for that reason.

25 May, 2013

Recover

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RecoverChvrches release their new single Recover in an EP titled Recover. The EP features five tracks including two remixes of their single and two new tracks ZVVL and Now Is Not The Time.

4 Apr, 2013

SXSW

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Chvrches perform live at SXSW 2013 in Austin, Texas. The band played five shows total throughout the festival. Lauren Mayberry:

It was five in three days. I guess you could be one of those bands that that come to SXSW and do like 15 gigs or whatever. It was more of a quantity over quality thing. And we wanted to save the voices, because we’ve still got quite a few shows left on this tour.

Chvrches, SXSW 2013 | NPR MUSIC FRONT ROW

5 Nov, 2012

The Mother We Share

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220px-Chvrches_-_The_Mother_We_Share_-_2012Chvrches release their single The Mother We Share. The writing and producing of the song is a collaboration of all three band members—Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty. Mayberry:

It was always very important for us that we presented ourselves as a band, because it’s a three-part writing process and it’s a three-part decision making process, it’s not two producer guys and a girl that sings the songs.