Chvrches

So I'm guessing that the new album isn't going to show up this year? There's been no news about it since February...

Just spotted Lauren AGAIN - getting lunch at my regular spot. This girl and I are on the same wavelength or sumthin

Ha, no way!

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

new single is underwhelming, feels more like an album track?

album is titled Love Is Dead according to a recent interview

Yes!! About time!!

that's underwhelming, sounds like chvrches but the songwriting's off

hope the next single is better

Agree with all of that.

I'm not underwhelmed by it at all - it's not an obvious first single but still it's exactly what I was expecting. Welcome back!

the ‘get out’ bit just reminds me of the ugly duckling

I'm just biding my time until this trio breaks up and Lauren Mayberry starts making good albums.

She's already made two excellent albums as part of Chvrches.

Agree to disagree.

Mayberry sounds uncannily like Avril Lavigne when singing the "good intentions never good enough" line.

the songwriting is v early-mid 00s pop-punk

Really disappointed with this single. They won me round on the second album, but this sounds like they're totally going through the motions.

It sounds like Chvrches being Chvrches and not trying to be pain in the arse arty bellends for the sake of it, which suits me down to the ground.

You like it and nobody else who's commented does. It's not a personal attack on you, though it may turn into one.

I know it's not, but I reserve the right to disagree - and I do.

Mind you, I could have predicted this exact textbook response to the track months before any new stuff came out anyway.

I like the single. I hear Hayley Williams more than I hear Avril Lavigne, though.

Mind you, I could have predicted this exact textbook response to the track months before any new stuff came out anyway.

― Full of bile and Blue Nile denial (Turrican)

Why would you say that? I really wanted to like this song. I thought Every Open Eye was a huge improvement over the first album.

I like the new song. It's not pushing their boundaries but it's kind of what I want out of it.

Didn't realise the synth player used to be in Aerogramme till I saw a picture of them the other day.

New track!

https://youtu.be/fKuxh0E9mSI

Apparently, the youtube mobile app link doesn't embed. Which is a shame cause this is excellent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKuxh0E9mSI

when I listen to 'get out' I find myself singing 'party in the usa' half an hour later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEdRhmBx8IU

good afternoon everyone except turrican

brad!!!!

yessss

I kind of like this better than either of the two new singles we've heard so far.

Also, man is Lauren adorable!

I kind of like this better than either of the two new singles we've heard so far.

― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko)

I was just thinking exactly the same thing. This is a lovely version of one of the best songs of the last few years.

Nah.

This is like The Beatles covering Freddie & the Dreamers - utterly pointless. Why lower yourself when your original material is so good?

That's Chvrches AND the 1975 done and dusted, who next for our intrepid hero?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvH6XcFGPAE

Needs more synths.

The newest one is probably the best so far: https://open.spotify.com/album/6JeYnZs46raym3yo9L1koC

i really wish we made a new thread for the new album.

looking forward to this album

Never Say Die is much better than My Enemy and Get Out which were both quite dull

This album's gonna rule.

Chvrches - Love Is Dead (2018)

The long-awaited Chvrches/Chris Brown beef is on!

Seems like this has become an alt-right pet topic on Reddit. They'll latch on to pretty much anything that makes an African American artist look bad. But no doubt Chris Brown is a scumbag.

Lauren's been sharing PM's that she's been getting via Instagram over this whole thing. Literally threats of violence.

Chris Brown is a major asshole junkie. He deserves all the shit he gets. That said, just erase him into oblivion.

I think that he's a hugely talented black male American artist who had a seemingly one-time violent altercation with Rihanna when he was all of 20, turned himself into police the same day, pled guilty to a felony charge, served his time, and has since found Rihanna's forgiveness, but has not emancipated himself from the harassment of both the media and the public, largely because he's a talented black man, and non-talented non-black Americans have a serious problem with "talented" and "black" people.

You know who had police called to his house three times for domestic disturbances? And: allegations of physical abuse? Sean Bean. Lord of Winterfell! But he's old and white and so I guess whatever. He probably wasn't dating Rihanna at the time. I wonder if he's a "major asshole"? I wonder if he's a "junkie"?

If Chris is in fact a "major asshole" that completely contradicts every account that I've heard from mutual friends. If he is a "junkie" then I support him and hope he's getting care for his addiction. "Erase him into oblivion"? What do you mean, exactly? Kill him? Get all excited if he gets murdered in the street? Emmett Till him? I don't understand what you're actually requesting. If you are actually posting here asking for a black male entertainer to be "erased into oblivion" i.e. murdered? destroyed? shot into space? then we can talk about that. If that is your desire then maybe we can help you with that. But if you have issues with him that can be addressed by adjusting your browser settings or your internet habits that don't involve engaging in topics that involve "Chris Brown" then maybe these can be addressed without implied physical violence against black American men... and I say this as a person who fully installed a "block Chris Brown" widget on my browser because I couldn't personally deal with the discourse surrounding his arrest etc. I don't wanna read about Chris Brown. Or what Chvrches have to say about him. But I hope he's not "erased"! "Into oblivion"! And if he is in fact a junkie I hope he has support.

I don't know anything about the band Chvrches except a couple of songs I've heard on the radio and they seem to be pretty good I guess. If they are going to be "calling out" Marshmello for being complicit in abuse they might want to check in with the survivors of Chris Brown's violence before doing so, as it seems as if the survivors of his violence are largely desiring of moving on from the entire affair and have expressed no desire to see the man "erased into oblivion".

Other women have made claims of abuse against Chris Brown,including most recently rape accusation earlier this year.

Being a drug addict is no sin obv and junkie is a shitty slur

Why a bus full of mental patients though?

Being a junkie might be a shitty slur but he's a father. Or should be a father. And time and again he's been an abusive partner. And to imply my statement is racist? Please. I don't think highly of any addicted parent who neglects their duty. (Top spot for worst is my grandmother.) I know plenty pf addicts who aren't abusive. I just think in his case it brings out the worst. And racism has no relevance in my thoughts of him. It's his behavior. Not the colour of his skin. (There are plenty of caucasian artists, and non-artists, whose behavior I find despicable.)

To say Rihanna forgave him: sfw. He's still a terrible person. (Case in point: how he reacted. Being run over by a bus? Meh. Full of "mental patients?" Double yuck.)

Was it Tyga who said? Let's have positive energy. Fuck that. If he had proven to change his behavior, sure. But no.