Love Is Dead
With help from some outside producers, Chvrches’ try to launch themselves into the mainstream. The result is an uncomplicated, unsurprising collection of steely synth pop.
Chvrches get a production boost on the overlong Love Is Dead, while fifth full-length V. erodes Wooden Shjips’ edge away for good, and post-punks Numb.er debut with all style and little substance.
The Glasgow trio's Greg Kurstin-produced third LP looks like an expensive gamble that hasn't paid off
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Scottish trio Chvrches hook up with producer Greg Kurstin and cranks up their sound.
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Chvrches influenced mainstream pop with The Bones of What You Believe and Every Open Eye, and on Love Is Dead, mainstream pop returns the favor.
Love Is Dead shows Glasgow indie electro three-piece CHVRCHES super-sizing their synth-pop, adding a surprising aggression to boot.
Even as their popularity inched ever-closer to mainstream recognition, Chvrches always kept one foot planted firmly in the underground. That...
The first two albums of Scottish synth-pop trio CHVRCHES' career have shown how brilliant and how average they can be, largely in equal measure.
Making an almighty comeback, CHVRCHES have returned and as album titles come, ‘Love Is Dead’ is a feisty one to behold. But don’t be
The album eschews the incisive introspection and figurative lyricism that defined Chvrches’s early work.
In a sense, it feels like CHVRCHES' first two albums were warmups for Love Is Dead.
'Love Is Dead' by CHVRCHES, album review by Adam Williams. The Scottish trio's forthcoming release comes out May 25th via Glassnote/Virgin/EMI
Lauren Mayberry’s vocals are strident and there are some brilliantly desolate ballads on the synthpop band’s third album – but a big single still eludes them
At its best, Love is Dead has an odd golden pop nugget, at it’s worst it’s plodding and formulaic
Scotland’s electropop trio aim for full mainstream integration. Review by Owen Richards