"It's an album that was created during the pandemic but it's not about that" Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry says in The New Cue interview. She goes on: "I think maybe lyrically and creatively living through those things and being shut inside with your own thoughts makes you have to think about things in a way that you don't want to and I guess that I feel like the 2020s reflected in it in that way, but it's not like the themes of these songs are 'the world as it stands in 2020'. It's more just like it was an enforced lyric-writing camp I didn't want but that I'm grateful to have had".

Chvrches share saucy synth-pop 'How Not To Drown'; Darkside keep their branded clubby sound on 'Lawmaker'; L’Rain goes dramatic and big on 'Blame Me'; Turnstile share a bit of grand psychedelic rock on 'Mystery'; Martha Skye Murphy used only classical instruments - clavinet, clarinet, voice, guitar - to create the haunting 'Found Out'.

'Death Stranding' is a highly anticipated new PS4 game from Hideo Kojima, author of 'Metal Gear Solid', and the game will arrive alongside an album of original music, Polygon reports. Scottish pop group CHVRCHES has written the game’s end song - "thinking of the themes of the game and what it is trying to say to […]

After Deftones announced the very diverse lineup for their second annual festival Dia De Los Deftones with CHVRCHES, Gojira, JPEGMAFIA, Hum, Youth Code, and Brutus, Hatebreed frontman Jamey Jasta took some issue with the order of the billing. “Who is churches with a v and why the fuck are they playing over Gojira... God the music industry suckkkkks sometimes,” he tweeted. CHVRCHES […]