CHVRCHES talks about Taylor Swift sounding similar to them
Musically, too, ‘Every Open Eye’ refines rather than meddles with the sleek, dynamic synthpop of their debut – a sound even Taylor Swift appropriated for last year’s ‘Out Of The Woods’ single. Doherty calls it “an amazing compliment”, though he admits that, “It wasn’t until everyone else started saying it that I noticed it sounded like us.”
adds Mayberry. “But at the same time, it would be stupid for us to say, ‘We were doing that a few years before.’ For everyone who says there are certain songs on the radio right now that sound like us, there are a lot of other people who’ll say, ‘Yeah, but they just sound like Depeche Mode...’”