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Screen Violence by CHVRCHES
Screen Violence is an album by CHVRCHES, released in 2021. 3 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “How Not To Drown”, on 7 lists and voted number one once.
Screen Violence, the fourth studio album from Glasgow's Chvrches, landed in late August 2021, released by EMI at home and by Glassnote across the Atlantic, with the band producing themselves. Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook and Martin Doherty started work in early 2020 and kept going remotely once the pandemic hit.
It's a horror movie of a synth-pop record, darker and more story-driven than anything they had made before, with slasher-flick dread pulsing under the gleaming synths. The band drew on their own lives, writing about disillusionment and the expectations heaped on women, and on "How Not To Drown" the Cure's Robert Smith adds his voice to Mayberry's, a goth-pop summit that lands like a thunderclap. "He Said She Said" and "Good Girls" rounded out the singles, and reviews were largely glowing, with critics singling out the songwriting and the themes.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Screen Violence on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | How Not To Drown | 7 | #1 | 1 | 2021–2025 | |
| 2 | Good Girls | 3 | #24 | – | 2021 | |
| 3 | He Said She Said | 3 | #40 | – | 2021 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.