Trashcanman's Pop Nightmares: Week 8

[trashcanman]

I was planning on something else for this week, but I actually heard a song on the way home just now that I'm going to go ahead and use. Having Wiki'd the band I'm sure that some of you have heard this, and I'd like an opinion. The band:



That is Scotland's own Chvrches. I don't hardly know them. But I think I could love them. Funny thing is I had the radio tuned to our local modern rock channel while taking my son out to lunch. That station used to be all alternative rock stuff like Pearl Jam, Linkin Park, Nickelback, Foo Fighters, and the like. But lately they seem to be trending towards straight pop, which is weird. Anyways, through random chance this song came on in the few minutes I was driving and it was actually good. Really good.

The song is The Mother We Share and it may have just earned these guys a fast-track ticket onto my wishlist.

[Ben]

Not at all my style. Kill it with fire!

[The Curmudgeon]

Interesting, this is a band I've heard of through NME and the like but never actually heard any of their music. Let's take a listen.

Listens.
Loads up iTunes.
Buys this song.

Yeah, love it. Admittedly nothing that's not been done before, but I love her vocals and the chorus is nice.

Great pick.

[lemex]

I like that. It's, yeah, nothing that hasn't been done before, but ... I kind of like it. And also, this might sound shallow but I found the singer attractive - I couldn't not thumb up this one!

[trashcanman]

So these guys are from your neck of the woods and you hadn't heard them, C? Huh. Usually American radio is way behind on UK music. The Arctic Monkeys just recently became a thing to non-hipsters over here.

[The Curmudgeon]

They're a band I'd heard OF but not heard anything by. I think they're on the cusp of some mainstream success, but at the moment they remain an indie favourite you'd have to actively seek out to hear. Which is a shame, because that's the sort of thing that you hear on the radio a lot, just of much higher quality. I'd certainly like to hear more from them, anyway.