Words: Ellie Ward
Scottish synthpoppers Chvrches have collaborated with The National’s Matt Berninger on a track from their forthcoming album, 'Love Is Dead', the follow-up to 2015's 'Every Open Eye’.
The record, out on May 25 via Glassnote, sees the trio work with outside producers, partnering on 13 of the 14 tracks with Greg Kurstin (Sia, Adele).
On the track 'My Enemy', the verses are sung by Berninger with Lauren Mayberry taking up the chorus.
"'Love Is Dead’ is an album about “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,” states Mayberry in a press release.
On 'My Enemy’ and working with Berninger, she continues: “We’ve all been huge fans of The National for a long time. We had played a few festivals together but really got to know Matt when we were involved in 7 Inches For Planned Parenthood, a fundraising and awareness campaign that he spearheaded. It’s really inspiring and reassuring to meet other artists you admire and realise that they are trying to do some good in the world.
“We kept in touch after that and, when it came time to record 'My Enemy', Iain and Martin suggested I email Matt to see if he’d like to sing on it. We never realistically thought he’d have time to do it but he replied right away and recorded the track at his house the next day.”
'Love Is Dead' Tracklisting
Graffiti
Get Out
Deliverance
My Enemy
Forever
Never Say Die
Miracle
Graves
Heaven/Hell
God’s Plan
Really Gone
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Wonderland
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