Chvrches: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

For a brief moment, I imagined hearing Chvrches perform “Recover“ or “Gun“ with a couple of acoustic guitars and perhaps a shaker or two. And, though these songs would surely stand up well when broken down and bared, I’m thrilled that Chvrches came with a small arsenal of synthesizers to perform a few highlights from last year’s album The Bones of What You Believe. Seeing these now-familiar earworms executed up close was nearly as much a campfire moment as an acoustic set might have been, except the flames