''Hansa Session'' is the acoustic and string quartet version of five re-imagined tracks from the '' Love Is Dead'' album by Scottish

synth-pop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s b ...

band

Chvrches Chvrches (stylised CHVRCHΞS and pronounced "Churches") are a Scottish synth-pop band from Glasgow, formed in September 2011. The band consists of Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and, unofficially since 2018, Jonny Scott. Mostly deriv ...

recorded at the

Hansa Tonstudio Hansa Tonstudio is a recording studio located in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, Germany. The studio, famous for its Meistersaal recording hall, is situated approximately 150 metres from the former Berlin Wall, giving rise to its former nickna ...

in Berlin. Talking about the motivation behind this EP which doesn't bring new material but suggests another point of view of some of their songs,

Lauren Mayberry Lauren Eve Mayberry (born 7 October 1987) is a Scottish musician who is the vocalist and percussionist of the Pop music, pop band CHVRCHES. In CHVRCHES, Mayberry co-writes and co-produces the songs with Iain Cook and Martin Doherty, and sings as ...

mentioned their interest to "...try and reinterpret the songs and still communicate the messages and emotions with different arrangements...".

Iain Cook Iain Andrew Cook (born 2 November 1974) is a Scottish musician, composer, record producer, and member of Glasgow-based pop band Chvrches. He played guitar for the Scottish post-rock band Aereogramme until their breakup in 2007. Cook also com ...

, who also wrote the string arrangements for this EP and recorded them at Bad Robot studio in LA, emphasized, on the other hand, the opportunity to be in the same place where some of the artists he admires the most recorded their work. The ''Hansa Session'' EP was released on 16 November 2018 as digital download and on 14 December 2018 as a limited edition 10" vinyl.

Track listing

References

{{Authority control Chvrches albums 2018 EPs