The trio will follow up with their new album All The King’s Men on January 22 through Futures, before hitting the road across North America, the UK, and Ireland between February and April 2027.
CHVRCHES have unveiled “Overthinker,” the second single previewing their highly anticipated upcoming album, All The King’s Men. Serving as the record’s centerpiece ballad, the track premiered as BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record and lands right after an intimate charity performance for 100 fans at Glasgow’s Assumption Studios—the converted church where the band recorded the LP.
Sonically, “Overthinker” pairs soaring euphoria with raw vulnerability, riding on pulsing synths and luminous hooks. Lyrically, the song turns the lens inward, moving away from broader societal commentary to examine deeply personal territory.
Exploring intricate family dynamics, frontwoman Lauren Mayberry reflects on navigating a bond with “someone who is your shelter and your storm,” unpacking the emotional weight of that contradiction and what it feels like to inhabit the ‘winter’ of another person’s depression or discontent. “Should I lie to you, keep my thoughts from you?”, she sings. “You ask after my friends, if I’m getting thinner, not sure how you raised such a chronic overthinker.”
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Marking the trio’s first full-length effort in nearly six years, All The King’s Men arrives on January 22, 2027, across LP, CD, cassette, and digital formats through Futures ✦. Following the 2023 tour cycle for their fourth UK Top 10 record, Screen Violence, Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty stepped back with a shared pact: whenever they reconvened, their next chapter had to push and invigorate them creatively. The outcome is All The King’s Men—an unapologetically British, freewheeling 11-track set of vividly emotional indie rock that defies expectations for both their audience and themselves.
During their time apart, each member spent the hiatus soaking up distinct creative influences. Frequent visits home to Scotland to see his mother reimmersed Doherty in raw British social-realist cinema from filmmakers like Shane Meadows and Ken Loach, alongside iconic UK acts such as Massive Attack, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and PJ Harvey. At the same time, Mayberry logged countless writing sessions to sharpen her lyricism, returning eager to explore richer storytelling and a wider vocal range.
Meanwhile, Cook—who remained rooted in their Scottish home base—began stepping away from synthesizers in favor of acoustic songwriting inspired by Nick Drake, Bert Jansch, and the Incredible String Band.
With each member bringing a radically different creative mindset to the table, the band abandoned the remote recording process used for Screen Violence, opting instead to gather in Glasgow for several intensive three-week sessions. Being together in the same room—and on home soil in Scotland—provided the exact creative friction they needed to experiment freely.
Listeners received an initial preview last month with “Roses,” a biting piece of modern social commentary confronting Britain’s darker realities, punctuated by Mayberry’s sharp delivery: “raise a glass to delusions of the good days of blood and wine; of pearls for swine.” Punctuated by its Orwellian outro—“If I may command your undivided attention, now we can start”—the single firmly established the tone for All The King’s Men.
Viewed from one angle, the album serves as a gripping examination of British and Scottish identity through the band’s singular lens. Having lived in the United States for years amidst its expansive newness, Doherty and Mayberry felt drawn back to the UK’s history—something “old and real,” even in its harsher truths. Whether subverting expectations with buoyant ’90s-inspired pop-rock on “Adore You” or channeling stark, sprawling solitude into indie ballads like “Comedown Tomorrow,” these state-of-the-nation tracks radiate fearless momentum and command complete focus.
Ultimately, making the record allowed Mayberry, Doherty, and Cook to rediscover their collective chemistry, fundamentally reshaping how they operate both individually and as a unit. In crafting All The King’s Men, CHVRCHES have once again unlocked a deeply resonant creative language that is uniquely theirs.
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All The King’s Men tracklisting
1. Roses
2. Evil
3. Adore You
4. Overthinker
5. Royal Blue
6. Comedown Tomorrow
7. Friend Of A Friend
8. Three Out Of Five
9. Conman
10. Jamie’s Prayer
11. Faith In Flying
To support the new record, CHVRCHES will embark on an extensive North American run starting February 13, 2027, followed by a full headline tour across the UK and Ireland. Following late-October fan presales, general tickets for the tour are already on sale, with full routing details and remaining availability listed at chvrch.es .
CHVRCHES – North America, UK & Ireland shows
13 February – Philadelphia, Franklin Music Hall
17 February – Brooklyn, Steel
19 February – Washington, Anthem
20 February – Pittsburgh, Roxian Theatre
22 February – Buffalo, Asbury Hall
23 February – Toronto, History
25 February – Chicago, Salt Shed (Indoor)
26 February – Milwaukee, Riverside Theater
27 February – Madison, The Sylvee
2 March – Boise, Knitting Factory
3 March – Spokane, Knitting Factory
5 March – Vancouver, Vogue Theatre
6 March – Seattle, Paramount Theater
8 March – Portland, Revolution Hall
10 March – Oakland, Fox Theater
12 March – San Diego, The Observatory North Park
13 March – Phoenix, The Van Buren
14 March – Los Angeles, Hollywood Palladium
23 April – Glasgow, o2 Academy
26 April – Aberdeen, Music Hall
27 April – Dundee, LiveHouse
29 April – Dublin, 3Olympia
1 May – Manchester, Victoria Warehouse
2 May – Birmingham, o2 Academy 1
4 May – Bristol, o2 Academy 1
5 May – Norwich, The LCR UEA
6 May – London, o2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
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