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"  Photo: Courtesy of Christina Kernohan Glasgow trio Chvrches emerged from SXSW in March with a staggering amount of attention, captivating fans with their compelling synth-pop tracks. The group, comprised of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty, unveiled their debut EP, Recover, shortly after via Glassnote Records. Now the band is ready to embark on their flagship U.S. tour, which kicks off on May 27 at Sasquatch! Music Festival in George, W.A. and extends around most of the States throughout June. ELLE.com spoke with Mayberry about the group&amp;#039;s live show, their upcoming debut album, and how they deal with all the recent acclaim. What was the first song Chvrches recorded? At first, I was doing the keyboards and backing vocals, and then I started singing more. I think the first one was either &amp;quot;Lies&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;The Mother We Share.&amp;quot; Those were definitely the first two that we wrote that actually made it out of the basement. There was some other stuff we wrote, but we left those ones behind. I think we were pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to work together early on. I think it was very heartening to us that we were able to write as a three-way partnership so quickly. Did you have a vision for what sort of music the band should make early on? Not necessarily. People have asked us quite a lot\u2014because we come from guitar band backgrounds\u2014whether this was a strategic decision to do something different. But I don&amp;#039;t necessarily think it was that. It was more inspired by the equipment and the retro synths Ethan Elliot has been investing in. We were just playing around in the studio. At first, it was just going to be a fun writing project in which we thought we&amp;#039;d just write an album and put it on the Internet or something. I think it was Christmas 2011, and we were like &amp;quot;Maybe we should make it an actual band and play actual shows.&amp;quot; We were lucky to have had a certain amount of time to perform and build up material because [everything] went a bit &amp;quot;cray,&amp;quot; as they say. How do you translate your songs live onstage? With the type of music we play, it would be easy to just press play on a laptop and use a backing track, but that&amp;#039;s not something we&amp;#039;re interested in. Probably because we come from guitar rock background. Everything you hear is live other than the drum track and a few samples. I think that was always really important to us. We just write as if it were going to go on a record, and then we have to sit down afterwards and make a little chart of all the parts and who&amp;#039;s going to play what. Do you cover any songs live? Sometimes at our shows we do a Prince cover if we do an encore. I don&amp;#039;t really know how I feel about encores as a concept because if you plan it in advance, and you keep some of your best tunes to play in the encore, it seems quite sneaky. So we&amp;#039;ve never done that, but the couple of times we&amp;#039;ve done one we&amp;#039;ve played a Prince cover. It&amp;#039;s a unique thing to do at a show. So far, there&amp;#039;s been no mail from Prince saying that he liked it or to give use some kind of cease and desist message!  Will you be performing songs from your forthcoming album on your U.S. tour? Yeah, I think everything that&amp;#039;s in the live show has either been on an EP or will be on the album. I think that&amp;#039;s going to come out in September on Glassnote. Does the album have a title yet? We potentially thought of one yesterday but I&amp;#039;m not allowed to tell yet in case we change it. I like it. If we use this one it&amp;#039;s a lyric from one of the songs\u2014not the title but a lyric. We&amp;#039;ll hopefully work it out soon. Was there any pressure to deliver a good record since Chvrches has gotten so much attention lately? The way we see it is that we&amp;#039;re lucky people are talking about our band. But if you place all the worth of your band on what people are saying about you or how much you get written about, it&amp;#039;s probably a recipe for insanity. We&amp;#039;re just trying to keep our heads down and not concentrate too much on the shiny stuff. And make sure that we write the same record whether we are playing for 20 people or 200 people. I&amp;#039;m really pleased with the way it came out. Hopefully the material on it is pretty diverse\u2014it&amp;#039;s not all high-octane pop but it&amp;#039;s not all morose ballads. You want there to be a bit of ebb and flow, a bit of dynamics.  For tour dates and ticket info, head over to Songkick. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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