Chvrches' New Album Out Now; Australian Tour This July

On Friday CHVRCHES released their highly anticipated new album Love Is Dead, which is receiving fantastic reviews and has just scored the coveted Feature Album slot on triple j. 'Love Is Dead manages to balance hopeful, utopian pop with a darker, gloomier undercurrent.' - NME 'Celebratory, rich and more confident than ever before.' - DIY 'Love Is Dead is the darkest the band has ever been while finally becoming as poppy as they've always wanted to be.' - TheMusic CHVRCHES will return to Australia this July, playing songs from Love Is Dead to Australian audiences for the first time. The band will bring their spellbinding live show to Splendour In The Grass, alongside their biggest ever Australian headline shows at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion and Melbourne's Margaret Court Arena. Joining CHVRCHES at both headline shows will be Mansionair and Wafia. Love Is Dead is CHVRCHES' third album, following their 2013 debut The Bones Of What You Believe and the top-5, critically acclaimed follow-up Every Open Eye (2015). With the soaring success of their first two albums propelling CHVRCHES into new worlds of fame and acclaim, Love Is Dead is at times euphoric and others bittersweet. It is an album about growing up and "coming to terms with the fact that there are great things in the world and there are awful things in the world and that you can't get one without the other," says frontwoman Lauren Mayberry. For the first time in their career, Love Is Dead sees CHVRCHES welcome outside influences, with 2017 and 2018 GRAMMY Producer of the Year Greg Kurstin (Adele, Sia) co-producing nine tracks, whilst BRIT Award Producer of the Year 2018 Steve Mac produced 'Miracle'. CHVRCHES AUSTRALIAN TOUR JULY 2018 Saturday 21 July Splendour In The Grass | North Byron Parklands, NSW SOLD OUT! Sunday 22 July Hordern Pavilion | Sydney, NSW With special guests Mansionair and Wafia All Ages ticketek.com.au | 132 849 Monday 23 July Margaret Court Arena | Melbourne, VIC With special guests Mansionair and Wafia All Ages ticketek.com.au | 132 849