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CHRVCHES – Scottish Electro-Pop Trio Launch Their 5th In January – Info And 2 Singles/Clips Here

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29 October 2026


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Band: CHVRCHES
Who: The extolled Scottish synth-pop
trio dancing around since 2011.

New album: ALL THE KING’S MEN
Their 5th and first in 6 years.

More info & pre-order here.

In between, frontwoman Lauren Mayberry took the time and space for
her solo debut CD/LP, called Vicious Creature, which came out in 2024.

Mayberry: “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
most coherent vision we’ve had as a band. We’re excited to be back.”

The 2 singles (so far) display a new direction indeed.

– OVERTHINKER –

– ROSES –

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CHVRCHES Return With First New Music In 5 Years – Hear Powerul Single ‘ROSES’ Here

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24 September 2026


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It’s 5 years since Scottish synth-pop trio CHVRCHES
have released their 5th album Screen Violence.

But it gave frontwoman Lauren Mayberry the time and space
for her solo debut CD/LP, called Vicious Creature, which came
out in 2024.

The wait is over for the fans.
Here’s the new single ROSES.

Mayberry (frontwoman) “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. 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.”

Roses is darker, more powerful and
more puissant than we are used to.


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WIDOWSPEAK Offer Vivifying Dream Pop ‘ROSES’

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6 June 2026

Band: WIDOWSPEAK
Who: Vivifying dream pop friends from Brooklyn, NY.
Guitarist and vocalist Molly Hamilton and guitarist
Robert Earl Thomas.

Album: ROSES
Their 7th.

Press info: “An record called Roses would be concerned with romantic gestures.
Across the ten tracks, intimate spaces and stages of love are captured with a nostalgic, vaseline-coated lens. Candles burn inside red glass as lovers get close in a leather booth.

Celebrity headshots gaze down like angels in a restaurant. Elsewhere, carnations are pressed in a black book and dancers pull each other close. Widowspeak is a band that
riffs on big emotions without being too self-serious. The sweetness, even silliness, of an extended limerent phase that becomes as all-consuming as a pulpy trade paperback.

Cars and their drivers serve as a way to talk about codependency. If music can simultaneously be naturalistic and noir, saturated and lush, that is Widowspeak.
They’re a band that knowshow to set a scene.”

Far Out Magazine says: “Conjuring dreamy, folksy nuggets from life’s unassuming
corners, Widowspeak herald a charming return, delicately rippling with slowcore
ambience and a touching songcraft that carries Roses a respectable distance.”

TUTV: OMG, I’m lazy today. If I say that this record sounds like Mazzy Star backed
by Neil Young on acoustic and electric guitar I guess you know what to expect.

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WIDOWSPEAK Entice With Jangly Sparkliness On New Single ‘SOFT COVER’

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Reveries for the laziest day of the week

17 May 2026

Artists: WIDOWSPEAK
Who: Indie pop duo based in Brooklyn.
Guitarist/vocalist Molly Hamilton and
guitarist Robert Earl Thomas.

Track: SOFT COVER
Newest single from forthcoming 6th LP, titled Roses.
Out June 5th. Tracklist and pre-order info here.

Jangly sparkliness, flavored with sultry vocals.
Time for some daydreaming.

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dEUS – Belgian Gods Still Alive And Kicking After 35 Years

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14 March 2026

Belgian Gods dEUS – without a shadow of a doubt the best band in Belgium‘s
rock history – palyed one of their two try-outs for their upcoming European/UK
tour last Tuesday at a small venue in Leffinge, Belgium.

The gigs sold out in no time.

On this new tour, commander-in-chief Tom Barman and his accomplices will play
their first 2 albums, Worst Case Scenario (1994) and In A Bar, Under The Sea (1996).
Not in the LPs chronological order. No, they zigzag through all of the tracks, which
leads to an unpredictable, exciting setlist.

I saw the band about 25 times, and they never disappointed. On stage, they inject their songs with jacked-up energy and inflammable intensity. This was (another) special night, as they performed several of their classic gems from those 2 full-lengths, like Via, Hotel Lounge, Morticiachair, Fell Off The Floor Man, Little Arithmetics, Roses, Serpentine, and Theme From Turnpike for the first time in a long while. Nostalgia ruled.

After 35 years, with a couple of hiatuses for solo projects, and 8 LPs, dEUS still are
a fiery force, and still the most prominent Belgian group today (to my ears), but also praised all over Europe and the UK.

Their sterling catalogue isn’t dated at all, thanks to their sonic versality, intriguing waywardness, and Barman‘s extraordinary songwriting skills from day one. I never
get bored with them. Hail hail!

WORST CASE SCENARIO

IN A BAR, UNDER THE SEA


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