The band have officially shared their first new material in five years with the dark, industrial sounding anthem.
Chvrches have dropped the intricate new single ‘Overthinker’, and played it live for the first time at an intimate Glasgow gig, where they were joined by Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil.
The song arrives after Chvrches played a special intimate charity show at Assumption Studios in Glasgow with the trio of Lauren Mayberry, on October 27.
That space is a converted church where the album was recorded, and saw them play to just 100 fans.
The new single is the latest to be dropped from the group’s first album in nearly six years, ‘All The King’s Men’. Set to arrive on January 22, it will mark the the fifth album from Chvrches and their first since ‘Screen Violence’ dropped in 2021
The politically charged song is a far cry from the anthemic disco-pop of their previous album 2021’s ‘Screen Violence‘ with frontwoman Lauren Mayberry snarling: “Raise a glass to delusions of the good days of blood and wine; of pearls for swine” before it gives way to a choral chorus and the Orwellian closing announcement: “If I may command your undivided attention, now we can start.”
The video, which you can view below, also sees the Chvrches frontwoman sporting a new goth look as she sings the track in front of a crashed car alongside a knight’s shining armour.
The band have also announced two intimate secret shows in their hometown of Glasgow on October 26 and London on October 29.
“This is the longest break we had ever taken between albums and when we got together to write new music, we wanted to really push ourselves and not be retreading ground we’d walked before,” said Mayberry.
“I really think we achieved that. It feels like the most coherent vision we’ve had as a band. We’re excited to be back..”
