CHVRCHES announce special tenth anniversary edition of debut album, The Bones Of What You Believe

16 August 2023, 18:19 | Written by Tyler Damara Kelly

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The announcement of the Special Edition is accompanied by the release of "Manhattan" – the first in a series of previously unheard songs recorded during the making of the album.

“It feels quite strange that Bones is almost a decade old,” says Lauren Mayberry. “In some ways, it's like it just happened, but also like that era was a lifetime ago. We are very grateful to all the fans who gave that album a special place in their heart, and still show us so much kindness today.”

The album – featured hits such as, "The Mother We Share", "Gun", and "Recover" – was produced by the band and recorded in Iain Cook’s Alucard Studio in Glasgow, before being mixed by Rich Costey (Nine Inch Nails, Rage Against The Machine, Arctic Monkeys, Sigur Rós).

The original album has been remastered for this Special Edition by Gavin Lurssen, who mastered the band’s most recent album Screen Violence. Alongside the original 12 tracks, there are four previously unheard songs and five live tracks, the latter recorded at Ancienne Belgique in 2013.

“In late Summer 2011, Martin and I got together after having talked about doing so for a few years and started throwing down some synth-based ideas in my studio on the south side of Glasgow. "Manhattan" was the fourth idea we worked on together," Cook says. "It was the first time we messed around with sampling and chopping up our vocals which would go on to become one of the hallmarks of the band’s sound. Lyrically, we were playing around with pretty abstract apocalyptic imagery - in this case the Manhattan Project. This was right around the time we asked Lauren to come into the studio to try out some additional vocals.”

“"Manhattan" was one of the first songs Iain and Martin played me and it immediately felt like an exciting thing to be involved in,” continues Mayberry. “It really showcased a lot of the traits that would eventually become synonymous with CHVRCHES and what our first album would end up sounding like. It's fun to listen to it now, knowing everything that came along after it.”

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