Chvrches

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.

jesus linkin park have been famous for so long

wait Chester is singing for STP? how did I miss that

*glares at Comedy Linkin Park News alert disapprovingly*

according to this
http://priceonomics.com/how-much-does-it-cost-to-book-your-favorite-band/
you can hire chvrches for $30,000 - $50,000
or you can hire wavves for $5,000 - $10,000

http://mikeshinoda.com/2014/07/01/pointless-dicks-chvrches-laziness-and-cowards/

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.

might have to be open to the possibility that maher is an idiot

chv on

I learned a new term this year: “click bait.”

"I learned it from the tubes, the Googles."

KROQ and the clear channel clone did not play Haim. the only song from Vampire Weekend that KROQ has ever played has been "Unbelievers." they both played the hell out of "The Mother We Share" and surprised that it stuck so well, though it was better than any other song on heavy rotation at the time.

well maybe not "Get Lucky" and "Royals" were pretty big at the time.

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

better in theory than execution (maybe it's just in the wrong key?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZRxFsMD4UM

Didn't take very long at all for me to realize that's the best song Chvrches has released yet.

yeah so wonderful

Oh wow.

this bands singles have all been top notch, even bought their last debut album because of that. this is a very good song as well and now looking forward to album number two.

hmmmm, I'm looking forward to the new album, but I'm not sure I really love this track. On the one hand, her singing is much bolder here, and I think her voice has improved a lot. But with this new emphasis on the vocals, the rest of the music is much more sedate and in the background. I miss the massive stacks of monolithic synths.

massive stacks of monolithic synths

That's a big part of why I could never fully get with them before. No nuance in the arrangement. Just big synths fo yo face! all the time.

i was about the monolithic synths but this is such a sweet and carefully composed song

i have been listening to it all day

seems like higher/more hifi production value, I guess I miss an obvious huge synth hook but it has good emotional impact, lyrics seem strong too

is it just me or is her singing dramatically better here? like there just seems to be so much more oomph

oh wait i see moodles touched on this

chvrches are great

I Love Music (TM). Sometimes I forget that when I spend all my time reading clusterfuck threads

They were good at Pitchfork! I discounted the ropey dancing

when I saw chrvches at northside last year the highlight was a 5-year-old kid dancing wildly on his dad's shoulders

the set wasn't even great (I think it was more the setup / backing track than them) but the kid was the best kid