Chvrches live in London (Photo: Andy Crossland for Live4ever Media)
Chvrches will release their latest album Love Is Dead on May 25th.
This announcement has come with the new single My Enemy, featuring Matt Berninger. “We’ve all been huge fans of The National for a long time,” Lauren Mayberry says of this.
“We had played a few festivals together but really got to know Matt when we were involved in 7 Inches For Planned Parenthood, a fundraising and awareness campaign that he spearheaded.”
Love Is Dead is described as being both ‘euphoric’ and ‘bittersweet’, sentiments articulated by a band ‘coming to terms with the fact that there are great things in the world and there are awful things in the world and that you can’t get one without the other’, according to Mayberry. “We’re f***d, the world is f***d,” Iain Cook cheerily adds.
“But there’s an ellipses at the end. It’s Love Is Dead. Like, how did we get to this point? And how do we move on from this point? It’s Love Is Dead, we’re f***d, what’s next?”