The Bones of What You Believe
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Virgin Records Goodbye Records |
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48:04 |
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Iain Cook, Martin Doherty, Lauren Mayberry |
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Alucard Studios, Glasgow |
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The Bones of What You Believe is the debut studio album by the Scottish electro-pop trio Chvrches . It was released on September 20, 2013 by the Universal subsidiary Virgin Records and the band label Goodbye Records. The titles The Mother We Share , Recover and Gun were releasedas singles inadvance, the single Lies followed in December 2013.
The album is available both as a standard album with twelve tracks and as a special edition album with eighteen tracks. The latter includes two bonus tracks, two remixes and two live music videos.
The song We Sink from the album is part of the soundtrack for the computer game FIFA 14 . In addition, a Cid Rim cover is of the song Recover in the current gen - and PC version of Grand Theft Auto V .
Track list
All songs are penned by Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty.
- The Mother We Share - 3:12
- We Sink - 3:34
- Gun - 3:53
- Tether - 4:46
- Read - 3:41
- Under The Tide - 4:32
- Recover - 3:45
- Night Sky - 3:51
- Science / Visions - 3:58
- Lungs - 3:02
- By The Throat - 4:09
- You Caught the Light - 5:37
reception
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The album reached number 9 in the British, number 12 in the US, number 18 in the Austrian, number 22 in the German and number 55 in the Swiss charts.
Anne Nussbaum from Laut.de praised the album, saying that it was "structurally simple and poppy in the best sense of the word, every song [is] a little hymn". Chvrches masters an “exemplary synthesis of majority pop and playful electronic music , of mass appeal and individuality”.
The metascore of the album is 80 out of 100 possible points.
Rolling Stone magazine chose The Bones of What You Believe at number 32 of the 50 best albums of 2013. In the Pitchfork Media selection, the album was ranked 36th. The New Musical Express ranked it 23rd and the German magazine Musikexpress ranked 39th Year lists.
The album was included in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Heather Phares on AllMusic.com (accessed August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Jens Balzer on RollingStone.de (accessed on August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Larry Fitzmaurice on Pitchfork.com (accessed August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Barry Nicolson on NME.com (accessed August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Harriet Gibsone on TheGuardian.com (accessed August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Puja Patel on Spin.com (accessed August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Holly Williams on Independent.co.uk (accessed August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Review by Anne Nussbaum on Laut.de (accessed on August 15, 2015)
- ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
- ↑ Anne Nussbaum: The Scottish Synthpop survived the blog hype masterfully. In: laut.de , accessed on February 15, 2014.
- ↑ Metascore: The Bones Of What You Believe on metacritic.com (accessed March 9, 2018)
- ↑ 50 Best Albums of 2013 on rollingstone.com (accessed March 9, 2018)
- ↑ The Top 50 Albums of 2013 on pitchfork.com (accessed March 9, 2018)
- ↑ NME's 50 Best Albums Of 2013 on nme.com (accessed March 9, 2018)
- ↑ Final result: The 100 best records of 2013 on musikexpress.de (accessed on March 10, 2018)