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Polaroids with CHVRCHES

01 April 2016, 10:30

We catch up with Glasgow electro-pop trio CHVRCHES for some Impossible Polaroids just before they zap some electro-pop life into the home of the Proms on their Every Open Eye tour.

In London as part of the European leg of the Every Open Eye World Tour, which has seen the band play the US, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Japan, CHVRCHES are set for The SSE Hydro in Glasgow, as well as dates in Cologne, Munich and Berlin in April, before playing this year's Coachella.

Along with co-headline shows with Death Cab for Cutie through the summer, the band have a fair share of festivals ahead of them, namely Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Glastonbury, Roskilde, Latitude, Oya, Sziget, Way Out West, Flow, Pukkelpop, Lowlands and Reading.

We also captured their stand-out live performance that night at the Royal Albert Hall in photos, where their setlist included 'Never Ending Circles', 'Keep You on My Side', 'We Sink', 'Make Them Gold', 'Empty Threat', 'High Enough To Carry You Over', 'Tether', 'Playing Dead', 'Science/Visions', 'Gun', 'Bury It', 'Under the Tide', 'Recover', 'Leave a Trace', 'Clearest Blue', with an encore of 'Afterglow' and 'The Mother We Share'.

CHVRCHES' LP Every Open Eye is out now on Virgin EMI, including the singles 'Leave a Trace', 'Clearest Blue' and 'Empty Threat', is out now. Best Fit's review of the record found "Every Open Eye is full of epic singles that reverberate dizzingly around the head. Versatile vocals layer nostalgic computerised patterns to produce high drama within tracks and between individual verses."

Best Fit summed up the band's live performance: "A dark undercurrent often pulsates through the core of Chvrches' sublty complex pop. When put under the microscope there may be small traces of Depeche Mode laying within the band's sonic DNA, but any underlying Eighties pop influences have been cut up, re-jigged and fed on a strict diet of modernism to ensure they appear muscled up, fitter, stronger and more determined - the finale of "The Mother We Share" in particular is one that leaves us believing what we witnessed tonight was something rather special. Chvrches are not only one of the UK’s most exciting pop acts, they are one eho should be held in the same regard worldwide.

BW 2.0 Impossible Project 600 type film by Impossible and shot on Polaroid 600 series.

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