Chvrches Share "Leave a Trace" Lyric Video

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Yesterday, Chvrches announced Every Open Eye, the follow-up to 2013's The Bones of What You Believe. It's out September 25 via Glassnote. Today, they shared the lyric video for "Leave a Trace", which premiered on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show. Check it out below.

Speaking about the song in our feature "Keeping it Unreal: In the Studio With Chvrches", singer Lauren Mayberry described it as “the nastiest, snidest tune” on the record. She added:

“Leave a Trace” is the middle finger mic-drop. It’s about that point where you’re like, “There’s no point having this conversation anyways: There will be no resolve, I won’t feel better about it, you won’t feel better about it, no outcome from this will actually change my reality.” It makes me feel better to write about that—I’ve done something constructive with it. You don’t put that on other people, you put that into what you do. That’s always the way I’ve written lyrics. My ex-partners are not friends with me, but I’m OK with that.

Watch Chvrches perform on Halloween at last year's Pitchfork Music Festival Paris: