Synth Pop - from Scotland

"Every Open Eye" (Special Edition) is the second studio album by Scottish synthpop band Chvrches, released on 25 September 2015.[3] Self-produced, it is the band's follow-up to their critically acclaimed debut, The Bones of What You Believe (2013).
The album title comes from a lyric in the song "Clearest Blue"

Every Open Eye was released on 25 September 2015.

Every Open Eye debuted at No. 8 on the US Billboard 200 chart with 38,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release. Additionally, it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums and the Alternative Albums charts.

Chvrches began work on their second album in January 2015, six weeks after returning from touring to promote The Bones of What You Believe. Recording took place in a studio in a basement flat owned by Cook, refurbished with the advance for the new album. The trio would write a rough instrumental, Mayberry would pen lyrics and they would then put together a demo track. The band wrote around thirty demos in all. Producing all the music themselves, they recorded 21 tracks in total. The recording process took about five months, with the band working six-hour days, five days a week. The band were approached about the prospect of co-writing songs for the album, but refused; Doherty explained: "As we were making this album, a bunch of people offered to write with us, but we wanted to be an actual band." Cook noted that they wanted the album "to sound and to feel spontaneous".

"Clearest Blue", the seventeenth track recorded for the album, "came to define how the rest sounds", according to Doherty: "big and happy and sad and a banger". The group determined democratically which tracks would be included on the album, and were in disagreement over inclusion of "Afterglow". On the final day of recording they slowed it down, removed the drum track and re-recorded the vocal track.[9] The vocals were recorded in a single take, with various background noises left in. Witnessing Mayberry's performance, Doherty was "quite emotional", and they made the decision that the track would close the album