Chvrches return with highly-anticipated new single "He Said She Said"

"He Said She Said" arrives after Chvrches treated fans to their In Search Of Darkness playlist last month as a warm up for their highly-anticipated return.

Lead vocalist Lauren Mayberry says of the new song, "Like everyone, I’ve had a lot of time to think and reflect over the past year; to examine experiences I had previously glossed over or deeply buried. I feel like I have spent a lot of my life (personally and professionally) performing the uncomfortable balancing act that is expected of women and it gets more confusing and exhausting the older I get."

"Be successful but only in the way we want you to be," Mayberry continues. "Speak up for yourself but not so loudly that you steal men’s thunder. Be attractive but only for the benefit of men, and certainly don’t be vain. Strive to be The Hot Sad Girl but don’t actually be sad in a way that’s inconvenient for anyone. Be smart but not smart enough to ask for more than what you’re being given."

Mayberry adds, ""He Said She Said" is my way of reckoning with things I’ve accepted that I know I shouldn’t have. Things I pretended weren’t damaging to me. It was the first song we wrote when we started back up, and the opening line ("He said, You bore me to death") was the first lyric that came out. All the verse lines are tongue-in-cheek or paraphrased versions of things that have actually been said to me by men in my life. Being a woman is fucking exhausting and it felt better to scream it into a pop song than scream it into the void. After the past year, I think we can all relate to feeling like we're losing our minds."

The new song is the group's first new music since 2019's "Death Stranding", and came together remotely through video calls and audio sharing programmes, after Mayberry and Martin Doherty got stuck in LA during the pandemic while Iain Cook was back in Glasgow. The trio are yet to follow up their 2018 album Love Is Dead.