★★★★★
Lauren Mayberry's spitfire loud and tired of your shit. "You better run from me, with everything you own, 'cause I'm gonna come for you, with all that I have," she yips on "Gun." The Scottish trio aren't trying to subvert anything on debut long-player
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
Chvrches may share a label with Mumford and Sons, but it's a safe bet you'll never catch them wearing shepherd vests or strumming banjos. The Scottish three-piece is a throwback to the heady synth-pop era, when acts such as Pet Shop Boys and recent touring partners Depeche Mode ruled the Earth. Chvrches' secret weapon is singer Lauren Mayberry, whose sweet vocals not only soften the unforgiving electronic edges of the music but also give the band's debut album, "The Bones of What You Believe,"...
- www.sfgate.com
2013-11-08
★★★★★
Chvrches combine three of my favourite things - synthesizers, Scotland and living it up Roman-style with a rampant use of the letter V. The young Glasgow outfit have backed up the release of their Recover EP (led by the excellent eponymous single) in early 2013 with this, their debut album. In my view, heavy airplay on triple j and elsewhere has been well-deserved...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-10-16
★★★★★
A couple months back, a friend sent me a Facebook message in response to my review of Palm / | \ Highway Chase's Escape From New York. It was a bleak review, and it focused mainly on how contemporary communication has in many ways become a shallow, transitory stream of ironic self-reference. Challenging my point, my friend included in her post a link to an article by Johnathon D. Fitzgerald published last year in The Atlantic, entitled "Sincerity, Not Irony, Is Our Age's Ethos...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2013-10-11
★★★★★
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CHVRCHES The Bones of What You Believe
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This is the first time I've delayed writing a review on purpose, and not because I'm a huge slacker. This is going to be painful, and I'm glad that at this point, everybody's made their mind up about this critically acclaimed album, and my opinion can crawl into a hole and go unnoticed. Welp, here goes.....
- www.noripcord.com
2013-10-12
★★★★★
Scotland hasn't witnessed a pop outfit that mixes post-punk's nerve-jangling brio with blipping dance-tronics and tongue-in-cheek lyricism since Orange Juice found rhythm and atmosphere. So give a big, buggy welcome to wordsmith/singer Lauren Mayberry and her cranky trio Chvrches. From the moody swing of "The Mother We Share" to the brittle sway of bonus track "Broken Bones" with the keening one-two punch of "Lungs" and "By the Throat" in-between, Chvrches and Mayberry have a weirdly mannered...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
One of the better developments of 2013 has been the gathering feeling that the future might not be a lost cause after all. After decades of self-reflexive irony and endless retromania, pop culture finally seems to be rediscovering its futurist leanings. Even a couple of years ago it was possible to turn on the radio and experience a moment of genuine existential confusion about what historical era it was...
- thequietus.com
2013-10-01
★★★★★
Chvrches
The Bones Of What You Believe
[Virgin; 2013]
By Brendan Frank ; September 26, 2013
Purchase at: Insound (Vinyl) | Amazon (MP3 & CD) | iTunes | MOG
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If you've been following Glaswegian trio Chvrches since they released "The Mother We Share" just over a year ago, then you've already heard a sizeable chunk of their debut album...
- beatsperminute.com
2013-09-27
★★★★★
How three individuals grounded in the homespun Caledonian traditions of post-rock and twee-folk managed to build the gleaming chrome-pop edifice of Chvrches is far from self-evident. That discrepancy has led some to question the purity of the trio's intentions, but Chvrches are - in spirit, if not in sound - indier than most indie bands. They recorded this debut album themselves, in Iain Cook's front room, keeping A&R; men at arm's length until they'd made the record they wanted to make...
- www.nme.com
2013-09-25
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