Chvrches & Donna Missal at Hollywood Palladium

Hailing from Glasgow, Scotland, the synth-pop band Chvrches is made up from Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and unofficially Jonny Scott. Their debut studio album, The Bones of What You Believe, was released in 2013, and the band was ranked number 5 on the Sound of 2013 list by the BBC. Their upcoming and fourth album, Screen Violence, will be released on 27 August 2021, with the lead single "He Said She Said" released on 19 April 2021. Mayberry described the track as her "way of reckoning with things she had accepted that she knew she shouldn't have". "Being a woman is fucking exhausting, and it felt better to scream it into a pop song than scream it into the void. After the past year, I think we can all relate to feeling like we're losing our minds," she continued. The song placed at number 20 on the Alternative Airplay and number 37 on the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs charts here in the US. A second single titled "How Not to Drown", featuring Robert Smith of The Cure, was released on 2 June 2021.