The Bones of What You Believe

Mixed feelings about this. If you listen to it as a pure pop album, it's pretty good. The songwriting is strong and unique, and I enjoy the retro-ish synths. But it is otherwise relatively toothless and has already aged kinda badly -- see the millennial whoops and edm risers.

It was fine … but ultimately a bit samey

I did not get the hype with CHURCVES when they dropped. And I still don’t get it.

Generic 2010's pop with a thin veneer of 80s sythpop revival. A few good tracks pulls this up, but found it to be mostly basic and uninteresting. 2/5

Our cat of 10 years passed away today, here's to you MaoMao ♥️

Never heard of this artist, sounds like a modern indie flavoured synth pop which I swear I already heard so many times before, this is so damn boring. I am wondering if they will even reach 2 stars, just because it's a synth pop which I don't mind but I don't know.. P.S. Honestly I cant even finish this, so probably no more than 1.5 on RYM, not sure if 1 or 2 stars here, really quite boring stuff.

A key peice of the early 2010s synthpop revival, this is bright and bouncey, bittersweet and yearning. It's hyperactive, all glossy surfaces and polished artifice, purposefully failing to conceal a pained desire for more, the minor tragedy of fomo turning to banal dissapointment. Pure pop masquerading as indie dance music; Taylor Swift and Carly Rae Jepsen rip this aesthetic off entirely in the next two years and harness it to even more massive hooks and their commercial rocketship. Ends with a very cool moody shoegaze track with fuzz and shedloads of reverb.

Geez, this site sure wants me to listen to electronic albums seeing as The Bones Of What You Believe is the third one in a row i have heard these past few days and yeah, it's a great one. I've never really heard any of this band's music but i have frequently heard their name. I mainly like this for the fact that for an electro pop album, it is very deep, layered and complex. This is apparent in mostly the music and the lyrics. Those are the moments where i feel the album was at it's best as the much overly happy sounding stuff, while fine, wasn't this album's strong point. Definitely a really good album that i'm glad i listened to before i died.
Best Song: By The Throat
Worst Song: Gun

Surprisingly, disappointingly underwhelming. Not awful, but based on reputation I had hoped for more.

I already knew this record and liked it. I think this is a great indie synth pop album. Very cool sound design and good songs. I really liked it.

I already knew and liked The Mother We Share, but for some reason had never really felt the need to check out any more Chvrches. That was maybe my loss as I really enjoyed this.

'The way is long, but you can make it easy on me.' Well, there's something here, something real, passional, & restorative, but it's also I've-heard-it-all-before-I-think-in-Walmart-music, & no surprises are ultimately proffered w/ these twelve tracks. 'Trade our places, take no chances / Bind me 'til my lips are silent.' Then again, synth-pop doesn't necessarily go for surprises, more like prolonged astonishment, the kind you get during a night out that has no single moment of revelation but a marathon of confidence & well-being. Personally, I'd rather have a bit of both, the long run as well as the short term, but CHVRCHES gives you religion & much less fun than you'd think. It's fun enuf tho, & proficiently produced, so I acquiesce . . . for now.

Definitely interesting. It really caught my attention. I think this may grow on me. Really liked "The Mother We Share", "Gun", "Lies", "Science/Visions", or "You Caught The Light". It's probably a bit too long. It's 3.5 stars for me.

I don’t normally hate synth pop, but I couldn’t stand this and it took a lot of effort to get through the whole thing. Just felt like generic and boring dance music with generic and boring indie vocals layered on top.

Also as an aside with no real impact to my rating, but I work with radiation and seeing trefoils used in pop culture is a huge pet peeve.

Дуже добре пам'ятаю хайп на цей гурт і я навіть сам трохи піддався йому тоді, ходив на їхній канц у 14му році. Насправді доволі мила музика, але як на мене, постарішили черчес не дуже добре. Ну або як мінімум слухати зараз їх мені не дуже цікаво. Але приємна ностальгія по тим часам виникає коли слухаю цей альбом (бо наступні мені не подобались і я скіпав).

Hard pass

Decently cool synth pop but a bit too bubbly for my taste.

Singing is a bit weak, especially in the first half. It might just be the production aspect of it too. The schtick does tire itself with the same synth-pop sound. Nevertheless, this record foreshadows the greater 80s revival in the next decade.

This was painful, I have nothing redeeming to say. It was just… toothache inducing vocals with synths that I couldn’t care less about. Plus simply too long of an album.
Season: 2012
Favorite Song: Tether

Was für ein Überraschungsalbum für mich. Geile Stimme, geile Synthie-Beats. Das werde ich mir mit Sicherheit mal zum chillen/arbeiten oder zum Laufen anhören! Geil!

This felt a little too joyful for a synthpop band. I needed a little darkness - I mean their Scottish for fucks sake!