The Glaswegian band returns with a collection of happy(ish) songs to get you through sad times.
The Glaswegian band returns with a collection of happy(ish) songs to get you through sad times.
With their danceable and hook-heavy synth-pop debut, 2013’s The Bones of What You Believe, Chvrches won the world over. The last two years have seen them writing new material while juggling a heavy tour schedule – a necessary evil of musical success as we know it – and we can now finally savour the fruit of their creative labour.
Every Open Eye is the Scottish trio’s latest full-length offering, which promises lyrical defiance and “anti-love songs”. Leading the charge are “Get Away” and “Leave a Trace”, an electro-pop confection that frontwoman Lauren Mayberry has also described as “a middle finger mic-drop”. Conceived in Glasgow’s Alucard Studios, the band’s sophomore album further develops Chvrches’ signature style, melting down the light and the dark, and the heavy and the weightless on a bed of melodic, chemical, electronic pop art.
Ginette Chittick shares the three Riot Grrrl albums that defined girl power for her.
Ginette is a DJ and the vocalist/bassist of indie rock band Astreal. Find out more at facebook.com/AstrealMusic.
Bikini Kill
PUSSY WHIPPED
No army can stop an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo. Back in the '90s, that idea was Riot Grrrl, a punk rock third-wave feminist movement. I was part of an all-girl punk band, and when I heard the first growls of “Blood One”, I was sold.
Bratmobile
POTTYMOUTH
None of the band members knew how to play an instrument not long before the recording of this album, but that was what Riot Grrrl was about – encouraging girls to pick up instruments and make their own songs.
Huggy Bear
TAKING THE ROUGH WITH THE SMOOCH
Riot Grrrls were part of a worldwide girl gang. Across the pond was British Huggy Bear. Impossibly cool and, oh, that accent is super hot. The single “Her Jazz” is one of Riot Grrrl’s brightest points, a full-on rage duet that takes no prisoners.
