Chvrches share new single Get Out

Chvrches are back! It’s been two years since the release of the Glasgow band’s second album, Every Open Eye, but today they share mint-fresh track Get Out. And it’s as catchy and dreamy as we’ve come to expect from the synth-pop trio.

There’s no word yet if Get Out acts as a warmup for the band’s third album, but the tweet the band sent this morning featuring the hashtag #CHV3 hints at as much.

The song also comes with a curious new video, but band members Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook are hardly to be seen. Instead we get a nine box grid of CCTV footage where the image of a heart keeps recurring. For eagle-eyed viewers, however, there’s a little easter egg in store. As flagged up by Consequence of Sound, one of the CCTV panels features The National’s Matt Berninger taping a poster to a street post, which reads “Friend or Foe”. The sign also contains the phone number, and at the end of the line you’ll supposedly hear someone who may well be Mayberry reading a poem.

 Danny Clinch #CHV3 pic.twitter.com/D3r5LvUH2p

— CHVRCHΞS (@CHVRCHES) January 31, 2018

Get Out is produced by Greg Kurstin, who’s worked with everyone from Adele and Sia, to Beck and the Foo Fighters. Earlier this week he picked up the Grammy for Producer of the Year for the second year running. “Working with Greg was so different to what we’d done before, but it also felt so comfortable and like he’d been in our band forever,” the band said in a statement. “He doesn’t try to make you write a certain kind of song. He just listens and then Jedi puppet masters the best work out of you. The opening synth riff of ‘Get Out’ was the first thing to emerge on our first day in the studio with him.”

Have a listen to Get Out below; catch CHVRCHES live across the festival circuit this summer, including at Primavera Sound in Barcelona (31 May), Best Kept Secret in Hilvarenbeek, the Netherlands (8 Jun), Parklife in Manchester (10 Jun) and TRNSMT Festival in Glasgow (8 Jul).