Title: Every Open Eye
Artiste: Chvrches
Genre: Pop
Familiarity: Heard and loved the debut album; looking forward to this one.
1. Never ending circles: Well it's not disappointing from the off. A nice marching kind of pop song, heavy percussion, great rippling synth
2. Leave a trace: Kind of lighter and more uptempo, still really good though. Man, she has some voice, hasn't she?
3. Keep you on my side: Nice and boppy; nothing as strong so far as anything off the debut. Waiting...
4. Make them gold: This is the first time I've heard something comparable to
The Bones of What You Believe. Excellent track.
5. Clearest blue: Now we're getting somewhere. This album just took off.
6. High enough to carry you over: Boo. Male vocal. Decent song, but is decent good enough for this album? I think we all know the answer to that.
7. Empty threat: Oh yeah, so much better when Lauren gets behind the mike. Great pumping, powerful, happy pop song with such a hook.
8. Downside of me: Superb little downtempo track. Love it.
9. Playing dead: Has a real hard edge to it. Powerful percussion (drum machine?)
10. Bury it: Yeah, it's just getting better now as it heads towards the end. Another hard-edged song with stabbing synthwork.
11. Afterglow: Beautiful ethereal ballad to end; almost ambient. Just gorgeous.
End result: I kind of expected this to be great, so it's not as big a surprise as the debut album was. That said, I was perhaps a little more expectant and maybe ended up being a little harder on this than I should have been. Still a great album, and a wonderful followup to
The Bones of What You Believe, but that album still holds first place for me.
So, Love or Hate? Nevertheless, and to no-one's surprise, it's a total
Love.