Chvrches return with dark, politically-charged new single ‘Roses’ and intimate Glasgow and London shows

Chvrches divulgou seu single de retorno 'Roses' e anunciou dois shows intimistas no Reino Unido – confira todos os detalhes abaixo.

• READ MORE: How trauma and friendship launched new Chvrches project The Leaving: “This was always supposed to happen”.

A banda divulgou oficialmente seu primeiro material novo em cinco anos com o hino de som industrial e sombrio.

A canção carregada de política está longe do disco‑pop anêmico de seu álbum anterior, 2021's 'Screen Violence', com a vocalista Lauren Mayberry rugindo: “Raise a glass to delusions of the good days of blood and wine; of pearls for swine” antes de ceder para um coro e o anúncio final orwelliano: “If I may command your undivided attention, now we can start.”.

The video, which you can view below, also sees the Chvrches frontwoman sporting a new goth look as she sings the track in front of a crashed car alongside a knight’s shining armour.

The band have also announced two intimate secret shows in their hometown of Glasgow on October 26 and London on October 29. Fans can enter the chance to win tickets here with all proceeds going to charity.

It comes months after the band debuted another new song, ‘Conman’, during their set at Robert Smith’s Teenage Cancer Trust’s Royal Albert Hall gig series.

That track also opened with a pulsing, industrial bass, as Mayberry sang: “A man made for the microphone fills my pockets full of stones / All of his wives, all of his nine lives dance on the edge of a knife.”.

Last summer, Chvrches first told fans that they had started work on a new album, and earlier this year, the band’s Martin Doherty and Jonny Scott told NME what fans could expect from the project.

In the years since their last album, Mayberry dropped her debut solo LP ‘Vicious Creatures’ in December 2024, which was given a three-star review from NME. “Mayberry is indeed on her own path of solo discovery, and that leaves plenty of room to be excited about what lies on the road ahead as she digs even deeper into her solo artistry,” we wrote.

Ela também se juntou à força com Joe Talbot, do IDLES, Death Cab For Cutie e Aaron Dessner, do The National. O último os viu gravar uma versão de ‘Who’d Kill You Now?’, do Frightened Rabbit, para ‘Tiny Changes’ – um álbum de tributo comemorativo ao falecido vocalista Scott Hutchinson.

Doherty and Scott launched their rave-indebted project The Leaving earlier this year, which was formed after they both found themselves living in Los Angeles, going through difficult times.

As for bandmate Iain Cook, he shared a remix of The Cranberries’ 1993 track ‘Linger’ in 2024, and in 2022 teamed up with Scott Paterson formerly of Sons & Daughters, to launch the project Protection.

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