Chvrches give update on their “pretty emosh” new album

Scottish trio Chvrches have given another update on the progress of their new album. The follow-up to their 2013 debut ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’ is “20 percent different, bigger, better” according to the band’s Iain Cook.

Speaking to Pitchfork, Chvrches revealed several song titles- ‘Never-Ending Circles’, ‘Make Them Gold’ and ‘Leave a Trace’ - with Lauren Mayberry calling the latter the “nastiest, snidest tune” on the new record. The closing track, she added, will be “pretty emosh”.

“After making one record that people really like, some bands reject the things that everyone liked about them and make some really deep, thoughtful, dark record,” said Martin Doherty, speaking about how they approached the as-of-yet untitled album. “I wanted to avoid making a ‘mature’ album,” he added. “That said, it’s not like we’re making saccharine shite. There’s important lyrical content, and we’re still pushing the same emotional boundaries, but also trying to make it as accessible as possible.”

“Because the album was written over such a long period of time, it’s about the goods and the bads, the beginnings and ends,” Mayberry explained. “Personally, I’m in a good place right now, but there’s definitely anti-love songs on there as well. ‘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.’ It makes me feel better to write about that - I’ve done something constructive with it. You don’t put that on other people, you put that into what you do.”

Listen to Chvrches’ ‘Get Away’ below.