Building on the hooky pop electronica that had internet oracles everywhere falling for their 2013 debut, Glaswegian trio Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty return on a second record shimmering with icy, controlled confidence. “Leave a Trace” is a skittering R&B-influenced air-puncher while “Clearest Blue” builds to an almost impossibly euphoric riot of 80s synth stabs. It’s not all precision-engineered pyrotechnics though. Closing track “Afterglow” (complete with Mayberry’s haunting one-take vocal and a radiator clanking in the background) proves that Chvrches do stripped-down just as well as they do scrubbed-up.
Tracklisting
| Position | Title |
|---|---|
| A1 | Never Ending Circles |
| A2 | Leave A Trace |
| A3 | Keep You On My Side |
| A4 | Make Them Gold |
| A5 | Clearest Blue |
| B6 | High Enough To Carry You Over |
| B7 | Empty Threat |
| B8 | Down Side Of Me |
| B9 | Playing Dead |
| B10 | Bury It |
| B11 | Afterglow |
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Release Information
| Key | Value |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Every_Open_Eye |
| Format | 1× Vinyl (White, 180 Gram) LP, Album |
| Label | Virgin EMI Records |
| Catalog Number | V 3139 |
| Notes | Released in a gatefold sleeve with printed lyric inner sleeve. Contains coupon for download of digital album. Pre-orders from Chvrches’ webstore came with a signed postcard while stocks lasted. On back sleeve & labels: ℗ & © 2015 Chvrches, under exclusive licence to Virgin Records Ltd. Made in the EU. On inner sleeve: Recorded at Alucard Studios, Glasgow, January - July 2015. Mastered at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine. All songs published by Universal Music Publishing Ltd. |
| Discogs URL | Chvrches - Every Open Eye |