CHVRCHES - Screen Violence (August 27th 2021) Album • Page 25

Screen Violence is my favorite from them by a pretty considerable margin, and I liked them a fair amount before it came out. It's just, imo, their overall best and most fully formed, both as a full experience and and a collection of individual songs.

I'd put Love is Dead at basically the same level as Every Open Eye, tbh. They've both got several songs that have gotten played a ton in the years since coming out. For a while I put Love is Dead a hair higher due to being fresher, though it's harder to say at this point.

Pretty much never listen to their first one, sorry.

 

you should be sorry!!!!!

 

even if they broke up right after it, i would still have a copy of bones for those first four songs alone

 

Screen Violence is easily their best and I was a huge fan before it came out

I think Love is Dead might be #2 now

 

Found a copy of Bones in a record shop last weekend and snagged it. Just need the middle 2 now to round out the collection.

 

I still cannot get enough of Screen Violence—esp the “director’s cut” edition. I was a pretty huge fan of theirs before SV, but now I can’t even bother to listen to much of the other stuff before going back to SV. It’s so damn wonderful!

 

Yes Screen Violence is my favourite. Hadn’t listened to much of them since their debut but this recaptured my attention. Love it!

 

I still need to listen to the bonus tracks I just find it so hard to put a few songs in my listening rotation. SV is definitely my favourite album of theirs as a whole though and the first one I like all the way through.

Still love a bunch from their first three though.

 

You gotta listen to them. I think Killer and Screaming are great and can stack up well against much of the album. Bitter End is good, but it makes sense that it’s a b-side, at least to me

 

I know! I've literally been meaning to since they came out haha. I don't think I've heard them in full once but I was really into the snippet they put out before the release.

 

Killer is very much in the vein of their dark synthpop. The other two are in line with what you’d expect, but I find Screaming to be so damn catchy.

 

The debut and Every Open Eye are their best. SV is return-to-form but I’d really like them to bring back the emo-ness of their early stuff.

 

SV is so emo though, especially Better If You Don’t.

SV
Bones
EOE
LID

 

Yeah, Better If You Don’t is my favorite song by them in years.

 

EOE > Bones > SV > LID

 

SV
EOE
Bones
LID

 

I would like a copy of this on vinyl!

 

Happy first birthday to this wonderful record

 

My favorite by them for sure! Still listening multiple times a week.

SV
EOE
BOWYB
LID

 

Bought this on vinyl a little while ago, but haven't put it on yet. Seems today is the day that finally changes.

 

This album means a lot to me

 

Yep, it’s my favorite. Every Open Eye is a close second.

 

Has become my favorite from them, as well.

 

When’s the deluxe getting pressed to wax?

 

I gave LID a few extra spins recently, to refresh any songs that fell through my mental cracks before seeing them live. It wasn't a big worry, since this band isn't usually a live deep cut act.

Screen Violence makes me like LID a lot more. LID had a lot of good stuff, but also a lot of stuff that gave me pause to think "I hope this isn't the road they're headed down" with the insane pop sheen.

SV's absolute rock solidness was something I honestly didn't expect. But the existence of SV lets LID exist in its own little club bangers world, without the "worry" that this sound is the band's future.