CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry Shares New Solo Song 'Change Shapes'

CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry Shares New Solo Song 'Change Shapes'

Out now via Island

08 March 2024

By Mark Redfern

Photo by Scarlett Casciello

Lauren Mayberry, singer with Scottish electro-pop trio CHVRCHES, has shared her third solo single, “Change Shapes.” No official word yet on a solo album, but the single is out now via Island. Mayberry wrote the song with Matt Koma, Cleo Tighe and Evan Blair. Koma produced the song. Listen to it below.

Mayberry said of the song in a press release: “I feel like I'm playing to the general public but I'm also playing a character within the inner experience, because there's so much negotiation of my existence there. How do I keep people happy enough to let me do the creative work I want? I feel pretty fake and hypocritical at times because so much of the narrative around the band is “feminist”, but my experience within it hasn't been many times. I feel like I did all this work to make things work, but when you adjust yourself like that, it's considered manipulative in order to get what you want.”

Mayberry's debut solo single, 'Are You Awake?', was released in September and was one of the songs of the week. Then in October she shared her second solo single, “Shame,” which also appeared on our songs of the week list.

CHVRCHES are signed to Island in America and EMI in England. The band's last album was in 2021 Screen violencereleased through Glassnote.

Mayberry was one of our cover artists 20th Anniversary Issue in which he was interviewed for Screen violence. buy the issue directly from us here.

CHVRCHES were on the cover of one of our issues in 2015 and you can read our 8 page 5,600 word cover story on the band here. You can also read the bonus digital magazine Q&A with them here.

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