Chvrches - Warning Call

If anybody holds the shimmery crown when it comes to soaring, floor-shaking synth-pop bangers, it’s Chvrches. Just a few months on from their mega second album ‘Every Open Eye,’ the Scottish lot are busy again. This time, they’re soundtracking a video game called Mirrors Edge Catalyst (a dystopian, sci-fi type effort, according to the band’s Iain Cook).

Written from the point of view of Faith, the game’s lead character, ‘Warning Call’ is a suitably dramatic bundle of euphoria; pulsing and flying high and urged forward by Chvrches’ characteristically driving synths. Tasked with singlehandedly overthrowing an entire totalitarian regime, with special powers that range from parkour (fairly useful) to ‘runner vision’ (not sure, tbh) Faith’s approached the right people for a motivational anthem, alright. Yet to put a foot wrong, and growing more gaudy and bold by the song, Chvrches are at the top of their game right now. Turning a dystopia into a utopia? Not a problem, on their watch.