CHVRCHES have today announced their highly anticipated fourth studio album, Screen Violence, due out August 27th on EMI Records (UK) & Glassnote Records (US). The band has also shared today the second single from the forthcoming record, titled How Not To Drown, featuring one of the trios ultimate heroes, Robert Smith. The Cure frontmans signature voice melds perfectly with Mayberrys, both supported by the dark, piano driven song that is based on the concept of staying conscious when you drown..

Recorded almost entirely remotely between Los Angeles and Glasgow, members Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty and Iain Cook self-produced and mixed the album via video calls and audio sharing programs to create something that is unique and special, but inherently CHVRCHES.

Screen Violence was originally conceived as a name for the band. A decade later, and during a pandemic when the reality of screen violence has never b