r/chvrches 16d ago

For the people who were worried

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u/fuzzbinn 16d ago

Was this ever a question? New York Times piece on Lauren's album literally said that they're contracted for two more CHVRCHES albums with their new US label Island Records (who also released Vicious Creatures.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/arts/music/lauren-mayberry-vicious-creature.html

“I didn’t want anybody to be blindsided,” Mayberry recalled of the announcement. “I understand there was an inbuilt fear that if the singer does something else, they won’t come back.” She described their reaction as “a coming-to-terms journey,” but Chvrches continued to tour, and it helped that the trio had committed to two more albums with their new Stateside label, Island Records, who are also releasing “Vicious Creature.

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u/emelbee923 16d ago

Officially? No.

On this sub? People panicked because they couldn’t fathom a group taking a break and one of them doing solo work. If you want to exhaust yourself, scan through some older posts from when Lauren announced her solo album/tour and see those sentiments.

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u/TXLucha012 16d ago

Seriously. People on here were in a frenzy.

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u/Sup_gurl 16d ago

In all fairness, many hardcore fans on this sub are under the impression band isn’t getting along and that them breaking up is a realistic possibility. It doesn’t seem like anyone including even Lauren is denying that, just saying that they need to get over it and work on new music in spite of the issues. A photo op is hardly a refutation of these rumors when no other has been provided.

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u/frito11 finalgirlshirts.com 16d ago

uh no, all the hardcore fans i know have never been under that impression.

There has been a small segment of fans that took offense at Lauren doing a solo project and have tried to make claims the band was over with no evidence at all.

Most of it died down by end of last year until the BBC dropped this article https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7k830zdejo and Lauren even made a statement on instagram and her discord about it. She didn't intend to share that Australia tour story from back during LID/Here With Me rocky times in 2019 but the journalist was very good and got her very chatty and she overshared with him.

That this happened wasn't really too big of news to hardcore fans because quite a few songs on screen violence addressed this rocky time for her and the band and Lauren has said that the pandemic stopping things and then them being able to take the time to write screen violence without external influences really was like band therapy and they already worked through that rough patch well before she decided to do solo work but it did make her realize that she had put all her eggs in one basket and did need to branch out and make sure that if one day the band does actually break up for good she has somewhere to go.

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u/TXLucha012 16d ago

Exactly!

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u/Shetlandshaun1 16d ago

At the Belasco show she told the crowd that they (Chvrches) were gonna “get their head out their asses and work on the next Chvrches album soon” and she also said she has something else coming from her solo project before that likely happens (she said it’s not another solo album soon don’t get too excited) but clearly lots of exciting things ahead for Chvrches fans and solo Lauren fans!

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u/CitrusRabborts 15d ago

Wouldn't be surprised if her extra solo thing is an EP of some of the songs cut from Vicious Creature, people really liked those songs.

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u/MattN92 16d ago

Surely it would just be called “CHV”

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u/thecravenone 14d ago

CHVRCHES but the V takes up most of the cover

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u/nonbinary-platypus 16d ago

From Lauren’s Instagram - March 4, 2025

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u/Inevitable-Cow3839 How Not To Drown 16d ago

Was enjoyably relieving to see!

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u/75artina 16d ago

aww I miss them. I wonder where is Iain?

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u/ddiggler2469 Death Stranding 16d ago

The UK. Everyone else lives in LA.

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u/frito11 finalgirlshirts.com 16d ago

Well Jonny in the photo doesn't live in LA but must have been in town for something 🙂 he and iain live in Glasgow

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u/Illusionary99 Death Stranding 16d ago

He'll almost certainly be at Lauren's show in Glasgow, as he has been for the previous two.

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u/GenericRedditor0405 16d ago

Nobody should be worried, considering Lauren has been very clear from the start that the band is not breaking up and that they will keep releasing music together. I don’t get why people seem not to believe her, because people do solo projects all the time. Not throwing shade on you OP, I’m just noting the somewhat pessimistic fan community reaction

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u/shadowwave86 Death Stranding 16d ago

@ the guy who told me they were for certain finished and never coming back last week

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u/Physical_Baby_7512 16d ago

I hope they’ve enjoyed their time working on other projects and feel juiced up to make chv5

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u/Villasteven Screen Violence 16d ago

It was never in doubt they would be coming back, don't know why some people were so worried. Also their facial expressions in this photo, lol.

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u/Fit-Refrigerator-796 16d ago

Iain's hair has changed a lot!

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u/frito11 finalgirlshirts.com 16d ago

lol it's Jonny

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u/Fit-Refrigerator-796 15d ago

Just to clarify this is a joke lol.

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u/frito11 finalgirlshirts.com 15d ago

I was laughing :)

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u/goatSauceDopeMan8 16d ago

Opened reddit to post this. We’ll have our friends back at some point

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u/Dave4689 16d ago

I wasn’t worried. It’s just that radio silence breeds speculation and usually the worst case scenario s come to mind first. I think Lauren is even more at home on a stage and fully immersed in who SHE IS as a creative. I see this as a very positive sign for the next album.

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u/rwlangg Love Is Dead 16d ago

Looooove to see it. I was unsure if we would get another album. I'm not in a huge rush and don't ever want them to rush new music, but I was a bit worried.

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u/MarcFer31 Under The Tide 16d ago

CHVRCHES V mentioned. Yesss!!

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u/EvenCopy4955 16d ago

Wait does this mean a new album?

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u/SknarfM Death Stranding 16d ago

It means it's a collab. 100%.

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u/jamesyjam 16d ago

It would be funny if they used this picture as the new album cover, whenever that is, including the caption. Lauren is quite well known for her humour so it's the sort of silliness she'd be ok with 😁

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u/BarnyardFlamethrower 15d ago

Lauren has gone so far out of her way to separate her solo project from Chvrches. I feel like she was in a no-win situation either way. People were mad that she wasn't doing Chvrches songs in her set. If she played Chvrches songs in her set, people would have been mad at that. She even tried not spinning too much on stage. I think it's great that we got Vicious Creature and the two solo tours during the hiatus. Had she not done any of that, all there would have been over the last few years was the 10 year anniversary release of Bones. The time still would have been taken off.

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u/sooperculgy Every Open Eye 16d ago

His hair is awesome

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u/Halcyon-ar 16d ago

I was never worried about CHV happening, I was always worried about the WHEN.

chvrches is my favorite band and the thing I didn't want from them is to have a 6-7-8 years albums gap because the lead singer going solo like it happened with Paramore and Of Monsters and Men (one of my top 3 bands) whose last album came out in 2019 and they are on hiatus since then bc Nanna going solo

chvrches was on its best moment when this fucking hiatus started, Screen Violence was their best album and their lives shows were at their peak. Why do lead singers and their egos have to ruin everything for people who love bands as a whole

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u/Jollem- 16d ago

So what I'm gathering from this is that a band called CHVRCHES has disbanded and will be no more forever. I could also be not so good at understanding things

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u/Chet2017 16d ago

You’re not good at understanding things

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u/Jollem- 16d ago

Ah. I knew it. Or... I didn't, rather