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| Length = 48:00 | Label = | Producer = Chvrches | This album = ''The Bones of What You Believe'' (2013) | Next album = ''Every Open Eye'' (2015) | Misc = }} ''The Bones of What You Believe'' is the debut studio album by Scottish synthpop band Chvrches, released on 20 September 2013 by Virgin Records and Goodbye Records. Recorded between 2011 and 2013 in Glasgow, the album was written, composed, and produced by the band. It was made available as both a twelve-track standard edition and eighteen-track special version, the latter including two extra songs, two remixes and two live videos. The Bones of What You Believe received critical acclaim from contemporary music critics upon its release. According to frontwoman Lauren Mayberry, the album's title derives from a lyric in the song "Strong Hand" and refers to the raw "creativity and effort" that served as the skeleton for the album. Musically, ''The Bones of What You Believe'' is primarily a synthpop album that incorporates "neon-Eighties" influences.〔 Upon its release, ''The Bones of What You Believe'' was met with acclaim from music critics, with many complimenting Mayberry's vocal performance and Iain Cook and Martin Doherty's use of synthesisers and vocal loops. The album debuted at number nine on the UK Albums Chart, selling 12,415 copies in its first week. It also reached the top fifteen in Australia, Ireland and the United States, and the top twenty in Austria and Canada. The album spawned seven singles: "The Mother We Share", "Recover", "Gun", "Lies", "We Sink", "Under the Tide" and "Tether", with the lead single becoming a moderate commercial success, charting in the top ten in Belgium and Japan, as well as the top forty in the United Kingdom. It also peaked at number twelve on the Alternative Songs chart in the United States. ==Critical reception== ''The Bones of What You Believe'' received mostly positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, based on 39 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Bones of What You Believe – Chvrches )〕 Kyle Ryan of ''The A.V. Club'' complimented Mayberry's songwriting and wrote that Chvrches "have crafted one of the year's best albums, which means that buzz won't be dying down any time soon." Joe Rivers of ''Clash'' lauded the album as "an exceptionally strong debut where every track is a potential single", noting that "()ot only do CHVRCHES revive the () sound, they push it forward, with wave upon wave of shimmering synths, more hooks than an angling shop and a songwriting acumen that belies the group's relative infancy." Reed Fischer of ''Alternative Press'' stated, "The heartbreaking and indignation in Lauren Mayberry's laser-precise voice makes her an imperfect protagonist in the song length dramas found throughout her band's debut", adding that "even more devastation (the building-crushing kind this time) stems from Ian Cook and Martin Doherty's sophisticated and catchy layers of synthesizers and vocal hoops." Larry Fitzmaurice of Pitchfork Media described the album as "a seamless fusion of emotive theatrics, hook-loaded songwriting, and some of the more forward-thinking sonics in electronic music right now", and found that "the hooks on ''The Bones of What You Believe'' are indelible regardless of instrumentation, and the sound is immaculate." At ''Spin'', Puja Patel opined that the album is "at its best on its revenge tunes", concluding, "In a mainstream landscape that's still reveling in the EDM-fueled fuck-yous of Icona Pop and Charli XCX's 'I Love It,' CHVRCHES' poppy electronic textures and bleakly lyrical brashness raises the bar." ''Rolling Stone''s Jon Dolan expressed, "Even when Chvrches are just competently mopey, their neon-Eighties visions are far from retro pose-striking." Barry Nicolson of the ''NME'' praised the album's "great songwriting" and felt that "while not every track has the immediacy of 'Lies' or 'Recover', there's not a weak one among them." Heather Phares of AllMusic wrote, "Even on the darkest moments, such as 'Lies' or 'Science/Visions,' there's a disarming emotional directness to ''The Bones of What You Believe'' that makes it a unique, fully realized take on a style that seemed close to being played out." Ally Carnwath of ''The Observer'' commented that Chvrches are "more robust and melodic than arty peers such as Grimes and Purity Ring—choruses are foregrounded, synthy jabs pummel Lauren Mayberry's vocals, beats drop from satisfying heights—but Mayberry's lyrics also carry a subversive twist of angst and obsession." In a mixed review, Slant Magazine's Kevin Liedel remarked, "While the album has its fair share of sweet spots, the handful of capable melodies never quite balances out its bizarre impulses or the utter lack of thematic unity." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Bones of What You Believe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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