00-chvrches-every_open_eye-(deluxe_edition)-2015.nfo
- Release Info -------------------------------------------------------------- -
Artist: CHVRCHES
Album: Every Open Eye
Label: Goodbye Records
Playtime: 55:17 min
Genre: Pop
URL:
Rip date: 2015-09-24
Street date: 2015-09-25
Size: 104.66 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 250 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
- Release Notes ------------------------------------------------------------- -
"A year ago, CHVRCHES were just finishing up their victory lap tour behind The
Bones of What You Believe, the 2013 album that rocketed the Glasgow trio out
of relative obscurity and into headlining festival slots. The debut hit like a
perfect storm; colorful, accessible pop tones swirled together with clever
structural escalations and hooks that just would not stop raining down.
CHVRCHES wrote pre-choruses that were good enough to be choruses, and when the
chorus actually came, it was like the song had just unhinged a second pair of
jaws.
Virgin in just the right atmosphere to make them, by some standard, stars.
Bones went gold in the UK, and the blog-to-blitzkrieg crossover seemed
the urgency that made Bones so potent.
Rather than an unhinged jaw, Every Open Eye glints like a freshly whitened
are absent here. This is not an album that poses any danger; instead, the
and water until the image blurs.
and their spirits up, but the affirmations smear together. The melodies to
is as polished and charistmatic as ever, but along with Iain Cook and Martin
Doherty on synths, she keeps tracing square, safe bars, song after song. The
keyboard for a full two minutes until the song ends.
singles. Mayberry stretches to the top of her range at the chorus, as she
Even at its most revealing and tender, Every Open Eye feels guarded.
a little atmosphere, and Mayberry stretches out her syllables to a pleasant
but comes up shallow, like a half-finished demo with placeholder lyrics and a
chorus still waiting to be written.
In simplifying their music, CHVRCHES lost some of the specificity that made
to miss the moments of exhilaration that used to power the band. They used to
sound like they were getting away with something devious and fun; now, it
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Never Ending Circles ( 3:07)
02. Leave A Trace ( 3:57)
03. Keep You On My Side ( 4:25)
04. Make Them Gold ( 3:51)
05. Clearest Blue ( 3:53)
06. High Enough To Carry You Over ( 3:39)
07. Empty Threat ( 4:04)
08. Down Side Of Me ( 5:10)
09. Playing Dead ( 3:35)
10. Bury It ( 3:08)
11. Afterglow ( 3:14)
12. Get Away ( 4:41)
13. Follow You ( 3:54)
14. Bow Down ( 4:39)
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -
|
|