• Chvrches

    "Recover"

    Virgin / Glassnote / Goodbye

    By
    Harley Brown
    ; February 6, 2013

    Best New Track

Chvrches have a knack for ambitious electro-pop familiar to fans of the Knife-- it's no coincidence one of their songs is named "The Mother We Share"-- and the Scottish outfit's latest single, "Recover", is another prime example of how far they can launch off of a standard verse-blown-out chorus-verse template. Dramatic two-part melodies billow over a beat that gallops and shimmers like a unicorn as singer Lauren Mayberry asks with piercing earnestness, "If I recover, will you be my comfort?" But damsel in distress she's not. A few lines later, she challenges her savior, "I'll give you one more chance" as synthesizers build to a lustrous ultimatum.

Chvrches: "Recover" (via SoundCloud)

[from the Recover EP; out 03/25/13 in the UK via Virgin/Goodbye and 03/26/13 in the U.S. via Glassnote]

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