The band Chvrches set new album, tour dates

I've only seen the band live during its last two appearances at Coachella Festival - on the Main Stage and one of the tents. Each was a highlight. I can't wait to hear the new album...

Chvrches fourth studio album Screen Violence is due out August 27 on Glassnote Records. Formats include digital, CD, limited edition 180g transparent blue vinyl with insert poster and limited edition transparent green cassette.

The band has also shared the second single from the forthcoming record, “How Not To Drown,” featuring Robert Smith of The Cure. It is a piano-driven song based on the concept of staying conscious when you drown. Pre-order for Screen Violence is available HERE.

LISTEN TO “HOW NOT TO DROWN” HERE

Recorded almost entirely remotely between Los Angeles and Glasgow, members Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook self-produced and mixed the album via video calls and audio sharing programs.

Screen Violence was originally conceived as a name for the band. A decade later, and during a pandemic when the reality of screen violence has never been more pertinent, struggling to make the people you love feel more than the characters on a TV show, and experiencing a world of trauma as if it were another, Chvrches revived the term for their forthcoming album title.

Narrating the theme of screen violence in three main forms - on screen, by screens and through screens - the album touches on feelings of loneliness, disillusionment, fear, heartbreak and regret.

“I think for me it was helpful to go into the process with the idea that I could write something escapist almost,” singer Mayberry says of the album. “That felt freeing initially, to have concepts and stories to weave your own feelings and experiences through but in the end, all the lyrics were definitely still personal.” While Martin Doherty adds, “To me, the screen aspect was a bit more literal. When we were making the record, it was like half of our lives were lived through screens. What began as a concept was now a lifeline.”

The making of Screen Violence also marked a decade together for the band with 2013 breakthrough album The Bones of What You Believe and 2015’s Every Open Eye, to their most recent 2018’s Love is Dead.

“How Not To Drown” follows the release of “He Said She Said.” The single is fast rising on the US Alternative charts, and debuted #1 on the NACC Singles Chart and went #3 on the Submodern Chart. The single is accompanied by an official video directed by multi-disciplinary artist Scott Kiernan. WATCH “HE SAID SHE SAID” VIDEO HERE

Tickets for a North American tour go on sale on Friday, June 11th at 10:00AM local time. Visit www.chvrch.es for more information.

Track list:

1. Asking For A Friend

2. He Said She Said
3. California
4. Violent Delights
5. How Not To Drown
6. Final Girl
7. Good Girls
8. Lullabies
9. Nightmares
10. Better If You Don’t

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES:

11/09/21 Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall
11/10 - 11/12/21 Austin, TX - ACL Live
11/14/21 Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom
11/15/21 Tulsa, OK - Cain's Ballroom
11/17/21 Minneapolis, MN - Armory
11/18/21 Milwaukee, WI - The Riverside Theater
11/19/21 Chicago, IL - Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
11/20/21 Columbus, OH - Express Live!
11/22/21 Pittsburgh, PA - Stage AE
11/23/21 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Theatre
11/26/21 New York, NY - Terminal 5
11/27/21 New York, NY - Terminal 5
11/30/21 Washington, DC - Anthem
12/01/21 Boston, MA - House of Blues
12/02/21 New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
12/03/21 Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall
12/05/21 Cincinnati, OH - Ovation
12/06/21 St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
12/08/21 Denver, CO - Mission Ballroom
12/09/21 Boulder, CO - Boulder Theater
12/10/21 Salt Lake City, UT - Union
12/11/21 Las Vegas, NV - Brooklyn Bowl
12/13/21 San Diego, CA - Observatory North Park
12/14/21 San Diego, CA - Observatory North Park
12/16/21 San Francisco, CA - Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
12/17/21 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium