I like "The Mother We Share", but it was "Lies" that really grabbed me initially. I wouldn't claim that every song on the album is of equal intensity or immediacy, but I think it's a great debut by a really promising band. Frightened Rabbits + Robyn, or a post-indie version of Berlin, or something. The hype, such as it is, is absolutely fine with me.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 27 September 2013 00:22 (ten years ago) link
http://s8.postimg.org/os01f2p91/perpetua.png
― ^^ post obviously honoring and supporting Qualcomm (zachlyon), Friday, 27 September 2013 05:58 (ten years ago) link
lmaoo
― dyl, Friday, 27 September 2013 06:57 (ten years ago) link
It seems like just about everyone on this thread has a different favorite song, despite the album basically operating in the same tiny box all the way through. Mine's still Recover.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 27 September 2013 07:03 (ten years ago) link
this genre of music was started by Telepathe in 2008, i think
― Andrew Sandwich, Friday, 27 September 2013 14:50 (ten years ago) link
They were pretty great last week btw and one of my favorite songs was one one of the dudes sang. He was a crazy dancer. Everyone at the show was like 12.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Friday, 27 September 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
OK maybe like 20 but man it was a YOUNG crowd which is not surprising at all it was just something I noticed.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Friday, 27 September 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
ha that's like the exact opposite of the PSB crowd, where I am pretty sure the median age was 47
― smang culture (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Can confirm both of you; I seem to only go to shows nowadays where the crowd is way younger or way older than me
― Vinnie, Friday, 27 September 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
oh for the days when 47 was way older than me ;_;
― smang culture (DJP), Friday, 27 September 2013 21:12 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/30/chvrches-lauren-mayberry-online-misogyny
Just went from liking this band to loving this band.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 30 September 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
It's heart-sinking that this is part of the job of a woman in a band now. Obviously sexism isn't new but the task of combing through social media interactions every day, knowing that it will contain shit like that, is.
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 30 September 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
can't wrap my head around the fact that this band is so under-appreciated here. not that they're great or anything but we share our mother and gun are eprfect pop songs.
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Friday, 29 November 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
"The Mother We Share" might be my Single of the Year.
― a fifth of misty beethoven (cryptosicko), Friday, 29 November 2013 05:26 (ten years ago) link
Love them. Maybe my album of the year. Top three for sure.
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 29 November 2013 05:36 (ten years ago) link
i like the album a lot but - and i assume i am in the minority here - i feel like Purity Ring does it better.
Recover is my favorite jam (tho Mother is great), and i don't mind when the dude sings.
― alpine static, Friday, 29 November 2013 06:05 (ten years ago) link
Need to listen to the album more. Mother and Lies have made the final cut onto my 'drivetime classix' cds i.e. ones to belt out in the car
― kinder, Friday, 29 November 2013 17:50 (ten years ago) link
Hurricanes (chvrches remix) by Ms Mr is good and chvrchesy too
― kinder, Friday, 29 November 2013 17:51 (ten years ago) link
On paper this Knife-aping vaguely indie pop is designed for me but I just can't get into them, and I'm a fan of Nikki And The Dove.
― boxedjoy, Friday, 29 November 2013 20:15 (ten years ago) link
this album is very hit-or-miss for me but I'm digging parts of it more than I thought I would.
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, 6 December 2013 21:27 (ten years ago) link
My god is their "Bela Lugosi's Dead" cover a steaming pile.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 27 January 2014 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Haven't heard it. Is it worse than Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?
― MarkoP, Monday, 27 January 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
Differently so, but yes. But DJP likes it and my soul hurts a little. It's streaming at Stereogum if you want to hear it.
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 27 January 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
I voted for "Mother We Share" in the EOY poll, largely on the strength of this unnominated waning summer remix:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZIA7H24F48
― disposable soma (Sanpaku), Monday, 27 January 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
<3 <3 <3
― Dan I., Monday, 27 January 2014 23:20 (ten years ago) link
we sink is ace
― OutdoorFish, Sunday, 23 February 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
courtesy of youtube:
Jk Prat3 weeks agothat guy is playing drums with his fingers lol!!
Kaybee2 weeks agoIt's called synth.
FilmPriest1 week agoA drum machine / sampler is not a synth.
― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 27 February 2014 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Finally got around to this album a few weeks ago and I love it. A lot of people I know really don't like it, and they're fans of The Knife/Grimes/Purity Ring/et al.
I don't understand the hate they get, as Chvrches seems to fit in perfectly with all the other recent "synthpop" bands that are out now. Maybe it's because they're a little less "dark", or because they're slightly reminiscent of Bis in places (another band I loved but everybody else hated)?
― naus, Tuesday, 11 March 2014 04:38 (ten years ago) link
Haha Bis is a bit cold, you prob put a few ppl off right there
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 06:26 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Mq04a4pMw
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 11 March 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
Chvrches-Linkin Park beef!
Mike Shinoda:"There’s so much music out there; there’s so much stuff that sounds like Haim or CHVRCHES or Vampire Weekend that I’m full. The thing I’m hungry for is not that. I turn on the rock station in L.A. and it sounds like Disney commercial music."
Lauren Mayberry:"I think that everybody likes different kids of music and that's absolutely fine. I call bullshit a little bit on that one because it's not a coincidence that his band has a record to sell and he mentioned several bands that people are writing about. It's not an opinion I worry about hugely because it's not my kind of music. [But] I don't really like being called a corporate sellout by the man that wrote the music for the MTV VMAs."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 15:57 (nine years ago) link
pretty good zinger
― Strictly EZ Snappin' Nhex (Spottie), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 16:13 (nine years ago) link
Nice one Lauren!
Shinoda was on Real Time with Bill Maher a couple weeks back, and Bill was lavishing him with praises like "rock legend" and shit like that. I choose to believe Bill was reciting from a press release. Some right wing dickwad who was also a guest on the show was genuinely excited to be sharing the stage with Shinoda too, but that's less suspect.
Also, it wasn't until these two incidents that I even knew the name of the guy from Linkin Park.
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
is mike shinoda the rappin dude or the singin dude
― adam, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
*shrug*
― You know something? He *did* say "well, yeah" a lot. (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
the rapping dude, aka Fort Minor
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link
wikipedia suggests the singing dude has a history of terrible band names
Chester Charles Bennington (born March 20, 1976) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and actor. He is best known as the lead vocalist of rock bands Linkin Park and Dead by Sunrise. He was originally the lead vocalist for Sean Dowdell And His Friends? and Grey Daze. He is also the current lead vocalist for Stone Temple Pilots and rock cover band Bucket of Weenies.
― adam, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
jesus linkin park have been famous for so long
― adam, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
wait Chester is singing for STP? how did I miss that
*glares at Comedy Linkin Park News alert disapprovingly*
― Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:23 (nine years ago) link
according to thishttp://priceonomics.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-book-your-favorite-band/you can hire chvrches for $30,000 - $50,000or you can hire wavves for $5,000 - $10,000
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
http://mikeshinoda.com/2014/07/01/pointless-dicks-chvrches-laziness-and-cowards/
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 21:45 (nine years ago) link
Shinoda was on Real Time with Bill Maher a couple weeks back, and Bill was lavishing him with praises like "rock legend" and shit like that. I choose to believe Bill was reciting from a press release.
might have to be open to the possibility that maher is an idiot
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:33 (nine years ago) link
chv on
I learned a new term this year: “click bait.”
"I learned it from the tubes, the Googles."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 23:48 (nine years ago) link
KROQ and the clear channel clone did not play Haim. the only song from Vampire Weekend that KROQ has ever played has been "Unbelievers." they both played the hell out of "The Mother We Share" and surprised that it stuck so well, though it was better than any other song on heavy rotation at the time.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:03 (nine years ago) link
well maybe not "Get Lucky" and "Royals" were pretty big at the time.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 July 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlDtR_FIRHY
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Thursday, 19 February 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
better in theory than execution (maybe it's just in the wrong key?)
― katherine, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRxFsMD4UM
― KevRus, Thursday, 16 July 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Didn't take very long at all for me to realize that's the best song Chvrches has released yet.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 16 July 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
First track from the upcoming Lauren Mayberry album. Gorgeous piano ballad. The official video premiers at 12:45pm ET.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMhnoRR935o
― peace, man, Friday, 1 September 2023 13:13 (nine months ago) link
really lovely ;_; gonna have to try to see one of her solo shows out of pure curiosity
― ivy., Friday, 1 September 2023 13:15 (nine months ago) link
her solo show was SOOOOOOOO good, i cannot wait for this record to come out
― ivy., Monday, 18 September 2023 05:02 (eight months ago) link
Seeing her in Boston tonight, and enjoying the fact that I really don't know what to expect.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 18 September 2023 14:05 (eight months ago) link
oooh so im assuming the rest of her solo stuff is good? if the album is anywhere near as wonderful as "Are You Awake?" then this could really be something. I've been playing that track over and over.
― gman59, Monday, 18 September 2023 19:13 (eight months ago) link
i listened to some live recordings and the main reference points are 80s madonna (she's even covering "like a prayer") and pretty hate machine (surprisingly enough), it all sounds pretty good
― ufo, Monday, 18 September 2023 21:33 (eight months ago) link
In concert, at least, the other songs were all much more upbeat than "Are You Awake?"
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 September 2023 00:18 (eight months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5171u8a1Q
― ivy., Tuesday, 10 October 2023 20:47 (seven months ago) link