Two of the releases for the autumn that sound the most lately are those of Chvrches and Hurts, two bands that can boast of having one of those characteristic sounds that makes you recognize them within seconds of listening to them. But it is precisely that, his characteristic sound-style that can play against him when it comes to releasing new material.
Chvrches will release his second album, 'Every Open Eye', on September 25, of which the song 'Leave a Trace' had already been heard a month ago, which appeared as a successful evolution of 'The Bones Of What You Believe', his first album. Chvrches presented yesterday the song with which he opens this new LP, 'Never Ending Circles', a song that - much to my regret - sounds more like a bonus track from the first LP than the premiere of the second. This does not mean that 'Never Ending Circles' is a bad song, as it is not, but it is inevitable that it sounds too similar to 'Gun', from their first album.
When Hurts came out with their first LP, 'Happiness', they surprised us with a load of beastly drama that we all loved. When releasing his second album, 'Exile', we were not a few who came across something like a pretentious attempt to want to overcome the success of the first album without succeeding, although that is a step -with a stumbling block- of the most common in that of «The second LP's». For the upcoming release on October 9 of his third album, 'Surrender', Hurts has already previewed two singles, 'Some Kind of Heaven' and 'Rolling Stone'. The lack of drama of the first advance made more than one tremble, although everything was fixed when discovering 'Rolling Stone', which did manage to bring us back to the Hurts of the first album. But the terror reappears with the new advance, 'Lights', where Hurts once again leave their dramatic stamp at home to become the Scissor Sisters. Here we have to say again that the quality of the song is indisputable, but this is not Hurts and that is a problem.