Any fans?
Music CHVRCHES
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Any fans?
Awful band name.
I like them
I know a fella called Jesus who loves these feckers.
I think they're really good, although I am admittedly biased because they're Scottish.
Doesn't he play for spurs?
Absolutely fantastic band. Really impressed whenever I've seen them live.
They are good. Heard them on Radio 1 on Zane Lowe's thing and they surprised me, his intro didn't sound great for them but pleasantly wrong. They're also pretty good live when I saw them.
Been giving their album a good listen and enjoying. Aside from the singles, Tether is great.
The start of By the Throat sounds like Last Christmas.
The start of By the Throat sounds like Last Christmas.
There's no better band to dance badly to.
The album is one of the best I've heard in ages. Like every single song.
Been listening to this a lot over the last few weeks, it's quality.
I'm really late to this party but I brought the album a few days ago and it's fecking awesome.
I'm a huge fan of bringing back massive synth leads.
Now one of my favourite albums of 2013 that I didn't know existed in 2013
I'm a huge fan of bringing back massive synth leads.
Now one of my favourite albums of 2013 that I didn't know existed in 2013
This is how I feel like dancing to "we sink". awesome song. Lead singer is bloody cute too:
That guy is brilliant.Up there with The XX as being one of the best debut albums i've heard.
Thats outstanding
New fan here.
I love this song, which is a bonus song on the album, the synth drop is pretty heavy then the song kicks on and you just wanna shake it.
Can't believe I've only just discovered these. The Mother We Share is an incredible song.
The Mother We Share is something special, love her voice. Great debut album. Don't think they'd ever tour NZ though, hope I'm wrong about that.
Recover is awesome too.
Other than TMWS my favourites are We Sink, Gun, Lungs, and By The Throat.
Night Sky is probably my favourite. Don't think there is one song that I'd skip on that album though.
This band got plenty of acclaim, yet they're still fairly underrated imo. How many better albums than this have there actually been in the last five years? If the Mercury prize had any meaning they'd surely have won, no?
Was pretty addicted to their ´Do I wanna know?´ cover. Somehow couldn't get enough of it.
I think the album was released about a week after the cut off point, so it's eligible for this year's Mercury prize.
This is one of my favourites of theirs, love their synth-pop style
Saw them yesterday evening at Bestival, was a right good old knees up.
I prefer this to the original.
I'm a fan of any song that Lauren Mayberry sings lead vocals. The ones where she doesn't are poor. They're touring USA at the moment.
Saw their Reading performance and it's the same with any keyboard / synth / dance band however, there isn't much of a spectacle live apart from the lead singer.
Saw their Reading performance and it's the same with any keyboard / synth / dance band however, there isn't much of a spectacle live apart from the lead singer.
The problem with bands like these is they sound awful in live recordings like these where you lose all the bottom end, so much better in real life with the full range, you don't need the spectacle of what they're doing on stage quite as much.
Interesting, I can see that working out actually.
Normally it's the opposite. Don't know if anyone has seen a band called Wolf Alice - live, they massively over do the setup and drown out the poor girl's voice. Less synthy than Chrvches, and a lot less hyped too btw. Probably won't amount to much but Blush is heck of a tune -
Back to topic - Lies and Gun are brilliant tunes. It'll be interesting to see what they do with their next album. Lots of touring, good exposure, picking up influences from other artists etc. Hayley Williams spoke about how she loved some of their stuff so I wonder if they'll look to collaborate or bring more instruments into the fold. Looking forward to hearing how they develop the sound anyway...
I'm a big Chvrches fan but for me this doesn't come close to the original. Half the awesomeness of that song is the riff, and their cover does away with it completely. Still a decent cover though, her voice sounds good singing anything pretty much.
She sings it in a different key (?) which I prefer to the original.
Thanks, enjoyed that.
They don't seem great live, at least going off various YouTube clips from different festivals etc. The singer still sounds great, it's just that the music never seems to have life, and sometimes seems to be out of time. Pity, because her voice sounds great every time I've heard her, and on the record their songs have that perfect balance of sounding both calculated and alive.
I saw them at a festival last year and sounded good to me, but they were fairly fresh then so they may have no changed up their live act. I hate watching clips off recordings cos it always sounds crap.
They've got a new song out.