Chvrches New Album: Synth-Pop Icons Promise a Fearless and Surprising Sound
Chvrches members Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott reveal that their new album is almost finished, promising a bold and unexpected direction for the Scottish synth-pop band.
Chvrches are gearing up to release new music, with Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott revealing to NME that their new album is “90 per cent finished.”
The Scottish synth-pop icons' last album was ‘Screen Violence’, released in 2021. Following its release, they toured extensively until 2023, including supporting Coldplay at Milan’s Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, after which the band took a break.
Last summer, they hinted at starting work on a new album. Now, Doherty and Scott have shared insights into what fans can expect, with Doherty describing it as “the most fearless record” they’ve ever made.
"We’re definitely not interested in repeating ourselves,” he said. “It’s diminishing returns if the fifth record sounds like the first. What’s the point? If you’re not taking risks now, then why do it?"
He continued: “We’re at the point in our career now where if we get together to make a record, then we have to be really, really motivated to do it... It’s going to surprise people, and I hope it’s going to delight them and rip some faces off. It’s quite hard, but not to the point where you won’t recognise the band. It’s still the same people and DNA.”
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Doherty also revealed that the album was made in Glasgow, emphasizing the band's desire for the album “to still feel very British and Scottish”.
"When you look outside and see rain and anger, you write the rain and you write the anger. That’s where our heads are at,” he explained.
Speaking about their hiatus, Martin shared: “What I knew with certainty is that Iain [Cook] and Lauren [Mayberry] were excited to do their own projects in the short-term. I completely respected it... We’d been on the road for 10 years after making four records – bang-bang-bang-bang – we’d just come through COVID and on paper we had everything we’d ever wanted, but they said, ‘We want to do something else for a year’.”
The hiatus also paved the way for Doherty and Scott to launch their rave-indebted project, The Leaving, after finding themselves living in Los Angeles during difficult times.
During the break, Mayberry released her debut solo LP ‘Vicious Creatures’ in December 2024, which NME gave a three-star review. She also collaborated with IDLES’ Joe Talbot, Death Cab For Cutie, and The National’s Aaron Dessner, recording a cover of Frightened Rabbit’s ‘Who’d Kill You Now?’ for ‘Tiny Changes’ – a tribute album for the band’s late frontman Scott Hutchinson.
As for Iain Cook, he shared a remix of The Cranberries’ 1993 track ‘Linger’ and teamed up with Scott Paterson of Sons & Daughters to launch the project Protection.
The end of Chvrches' hiatus was marked last summer, when the members performed together for the first time in two years at a Death Stranding 2: On The Beach celebration event.
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