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CHVRCHES
Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced Churches ) is a band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in September 2011. The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. Mostly deriving from the synth-pop genre, Chvrches also incorporate indietronica, indie pop, and electronic dance into their sound.
Two years after their formation, Chvrches released
Recover EP in March 2013, which included hits The Mother We Share and Recover . Their debut studio album,
The Bones of What You Believe, was released on 20 September 2013, while the band was ranked fifth on the Sound of 2013 list by the BBC. Two years later, on 25 September 2015, the group released their second album,
Last month, when Miami-based band Through Sand dropped Grapevine, the band somehow manage to hold tight to its DIY ethic despite the track s bombastic melodies and driving drums.
The foursome consisting of Chad Kishick (vocals and guitar), Peter Allen (bass), Eric Anderson (guitar), and Erick Feinberg (drums) had been playing in different bands, both together and apart, for so long that Through Sand s creation seemed preordained. The band self-released its debut EP,
Novelty, in 2015, followed by a second EP,
Acumen, in 2016. On February 16, the band s newest release, a four-track cassette entitled
New Ways, comes out via Tallahassee s KOTP Records.
This time around, the hardcore quartet wanted to put the work in on the marketing and promotion side to deliver something that people can get excited about.
“I’ve always been so in love with making records that the promo and stuff seemed irrelevant, but with this project, something was different,” Allen says.
Kishick reached out to friend Tyler Denslow at KOTP, hoping to release the band s full-length album through the label. Instead, Denslow suggested Through Sand release a few tracks to create a buzz around a cassette release containing the first singles off the eventual album, titled
Every Open Hand.
“We’ve had the album in the can for a minute, and we wanted to release it, Allen explains. We had previous material that we really just put out into the ether, and this time we wanted to do it properly.