Chvrches

I mean, really, who could hate this stuff?

― I have gathered no gaudy flowers of speech in other men's gardens (dowd), Tuesday, September 17, 2013 7:34 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

surprised at how much i hate this stuff tbh! vocals seem particularly awful?

v weak vocals but i guess thats the appeal to some?

feel like i like other similar indie dance stuff with weak vocals like YACHT or whatever... mb that's more deadpan or something

Yeah, I mean obviously people can hate this stuff just fine. I suppose it's on the fey side? You think with a more powerful voice you would like it more?

Solid album but the first thing I ever heard by this lot was The Mother Will Share and there's nothing to touch it. Haim they are not.

i felt the same way about "gun" at first but it's now apparent to me that "night sky" is the best thing on here

really REALLY hate the dude vocals

"night sky" and "we sink" really

very enjoyable album IMO, very in the vein of Purity Ring

xp cosign on the dude vocals, the bleating on "under the tide" is horrible

honestly I don't remember the dude vocals

The mother we share is great. The vocals are rough but every time I hear a bit of her scottish accent in it all is forgiven.

Having heard the dude vocals now, I feel like ppl are looking for reasons to hate them?

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.

http://s8.postimg.org/os01f2p91/perpetua.png

lmaoo

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.

this genre of music was started by Telepathe in 2008, i think

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.

OK maybe like 20 but man it was a YOUNG crowd which is not surprising at all it was just something I noticed.

ha that's like the exact opposite of the PSB crowd, where I am pretty sure the median age was 47

Can confirm both of you; I seem to only go to shows nowadays where the crowd is way younger or way older than me

oh for the days when 47 was way older than me ;_;

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/sep/30/chvrches-lauren-mayberry-online-misogyny

Just went from liking this band to loving this band.

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.

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.

"The Mother We Share" might be my Single of the Year.

Love them. Maybe my album of the year. Top three for sure.

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.

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

Hurricanes (chvrches remix) by Ms Mr is good and chvrchesy too

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.

this album is very hit-or-miss for me but I'm digging parts of it more than I thought I would.

My god is their "Bela Lugosi's Dead" cover a steaming pile.

Haven't heard it. Is it worse than Lorde's cover of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World"?

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.

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

<3 <3 <3

we sink is ace

courtesy of youtube:

Jk Prat
3 weeks ago
that guy is playing drums with his fingers lol!!

Kaybee
2 weeks ago
It's called synth.

FilmPriest
1 week ago
A drum machine / sampler is not a synth.

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)?

Haha Bis is a bit cold, you prob put a few ppl off right there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Mq04a4pMw

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."

pretty good zinger

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.

is mike shinoda the rappin dude or the singin dude

*shrug*

the rapping dude, aka Fort Minor

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.

"coming 2023" i.e. settle in for a six-month+ rollout. nevertheless, stoked.

Just this one song being released, apparently. Have not started on an album yet.

OVER – OUT 24 FEB 
A brief reprieve from the horrors of CHV4, we finished a new song and couldn’t wait to share it with you.

Pre-save it here: https://t.co/wJ8BeWn6WT pic.twitter.com/JzzAg6V2bJ

— CHVRCHES (@CHVRCHES) February 14, 2023

"CHV4" being the last album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkEbEYoAwe4

"over" is fine but a big step down from the last album. notably co-written/produced by oscar holter ("run away with me", "blinding lights", many other hits of varying quality) & matthew koma (about half of crj's kiss). at least it's better than some of their previous big pop moves like "miracles" and the marshmello song. seems to just be a one off based on this interview: https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/chvrches-interview-over-single-island-records-feature-1235259499/

I like it a lot, but am still digesting it. I need to go back and re-listen to the Screen Violence bonus tracks as well. I wasn't fond of those when the deluxe edition came out, but I'm wondering if that just wasn't some kind of knee-jerk reaction.

https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/chvrches-interview-over-single-island-records-feature-1235259499/

Oh wait - didn't realize that I clicked on your interview, read it, and thought "that'd be a good thing to share with ilx."

"Screaming" was the best of the Screen Violence bonus tracks, better than a couple that made the album, but largely I think they made the right choices with what they left off

"over" is a solid one-off, feels like screen violence lyrics sung over something from every open eye

i think i'm just a big fan now tho so i no longer trust myself

yeah my problem is just it's good and not great like screen violence was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikLc9_0TJ-w

All I can think of is the absolute agony associated with holding your arms up for 2:30 minutes straight

I'm betting that wasn't the first time she tried that.

Solo tour!

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu7Qi_Mrmq3/

This year is the 10th anniversary of the first CHVRCHES album. I met Iain and Martin when I was 23 — a little baby of a person, in hindsight. Looking back on what we’ve achieved together, so much of it doesn’t feel real or even possible. Thank you to every person who has been a part of that.

I am so proud of all the chapters our band has been able to have and I am so grateful to my bandmates for taking me on that journey with them. We are all confident that the CHVRCHES story has many more pages yet to be written.

For now, though, I am excited / terrified / bewildered to tell you that I have been working on my first ever solo music and will be able to start sharing it soon.

For a long time, I couldn’t imagine ever doing anything outside of CHVRCHES. Since I was 15 years old, I have always, only, ever been in a band. I always wanted so badly to belong somewhere — to be one of the boys, and to fit in. But as I sail / stumble through this era of my life (your 20s really do go by in a flash, kids), it has started to feel like there are things I want to write and say and do that need to be done on my own.

Thank you for being kind to us and for giving me the opportunity to do this. The first headline shows are now announced and on sale at 10am local tomorrow in the US and Monday in Europe. I guess here we fucking go?!

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

really lovely ;_; gonna have to try to see one of her solo shows out of pure curiosity

her solo show was SOOOOOOOO good, i cannot wait for this record to come out

Seeing her in Boston tonight, and enjoying the fact that I really don't know what to expect.

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.

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

In concert, at least, the other songs were all much more upbeat than "Are You Awake?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5171u8a1Q