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May 23, 2018Love Is Dead continues to ask questions of the world, but realises they’re not always black and white, or in CHVRCHES case, light or dark.
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May 23, 2018The third album by Glasgow’s Chvrches, Love is Dead, is the sound of your heart as it falls back in love.
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May 31, 2018Chvrches have made their most fully-realized effort to date (musically, anyway).
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Jun 11, 2018Heavily weighty with fiery doom and gloom, Lauren Mayberry masters the art of colourfully abstract lyrics.
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May 29, 2018Over two self-produced top 10 albums, Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook, all graduates of alternative and post-rock bands, have refined a sound that keeps one foot in indie electronica, the other in modern radio pop and its heart in 80s synths.
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May 25, 2018Celebratory, rich and more confident than ever before, they’re yet again the finest versions of themselves.
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May 24, 2018Love Is Dead manages to balance hopeful, utopian pop with a darker, gloomier undercurrent.
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May 24, 2018Not exactly a faultless record, by any stretch of the imagination, Love Is Dead nonetheless confirms that The Bones of What You Believe was far from a fluke effort and that the band, regardless of the success found in the intervening years, are still capable of delivering exciting, engaging and boundary-pushing synth-pop when it really matters.
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MojoMay 21, 2018Many sure-footed, instantly memorable songs. [Jun 2018, p.88]
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May 21, 2018Love Is Dead shows CHVRCHES attaining a greater urgency and darkness in tracks such as the dramatic, M83-esque Deliverance and My Enemy, a stuttering, drugged up duet between Mayberry and The National’s Matt Berninger.
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May 29, 2018Love Is Dead brims with that kind of confidence: assertive but not showy, passionate but not gaudy, and wholly necessary.
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May 25, 2018The songs sound bigger and more layered, but the core of hook-laden, synth-based pop and Lauren Mayberry’s lilting vocals remains undisturbed.
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May 25, 2018"Deliverance" is spiky yet inviting, its lyrics poking at the hypocrisy of religion; "Never Say Die" builds its drama with swooning synths, with Mayberry's clipped "never-never-never" on the chorus providing an italicized exclamation point.
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May 25, 2018The most impressive thing about Love is Dead might be that as big as its sound gets, Chvrches never lose touch with the humanity that's at the core of their music.
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May 24, 2018So much goes right here, but in scrubbing their songs of imperfections, they've also magnified their flaws. Though not quite stuck in neutral, it will certainly please the band's ever-expanding fan base while not really moving the needle creatively enough to convince sceptics that their initial opinions were unfounded.
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May 30, 2018Love Is Dead is admirably righteous, but it’s chilly, lacking the rallying impact of peers who have shown that empathy is more powerful than polemic.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 83 out of 112
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Mixed: 21 out of 112
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Negative: 8 out of 112
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