We're proud partners of the upcoming CHVRCHES show in Hamburg, which takes place in just a couple days time and is very much sold out. We sent some questions over to Lauren from the band and she was kind enough to take the time out from the band's busy touring schedule to respond. Read on below and if you're lucky enough to have tickets, RSVP here.

Your rise has been somewhat speedy. Have you had much time to reflect on everything you've achieved in such a short space of time?

Lauren: We have been incredibly lucky to do all the things we have done in the past few years but we have also worked really hard. We stopped touring in December of last year and took about a month off before going in to write the new record in Glasgow, and I think having time off-road to process everything we'd been able to do up 'til that point was very beneficial.

Is your electronic-led sound a result of playing in guitar bands previously and wanting to do something different?

Lauren: The sound of the band was initially informed by the instruments we were writing on. Iain had been collecting a few analogue/vintage synths and we chose to use those as our primary writing instruments instead of the guitar as we had all done in our previous projects and the sound developed from there. We were all very much on the same page when it came to foregrounding melody in the music, rather than trying to bury that or make the music more deliberately obscure.

You played Hamburg in 2013 - how much has the band grown since then? Presumably you'll have a bigger stage set-up this time around!

Lauren: We have toured a huge amount since we started this band and I think we are a much more confident live band now than we were a couple of years ago, and the setlist is much more diverse now that we have more material to work with.

Does the city of Glasgow inspire you in your songwriting or do you not necessarily associate your music with your environment?

Lauren: Glasgow has a great musical heritage and that definitely influenced me when I was growing up, and I think the scene there has informed all of us as people, writers and performers as that's the scene we came up in. Bands like The Blue Nile, Arab Strap, Mogwai - it is a really diverse and creative city when it comes to music.

Tell us 3 things about 'Every Open Eye'

Lauren: We self-recorded and self-produced the album in our basement studio in Glasgow, the same place we made The Bones Of What You Believe. It is a development of the sound of the first album but a lot more confident and sure of itself. The album title comes from the song Clearest Blue.

You're closing in on 1 million listeners on Last.fm. What prize would you give to the 1 millionth?

Lauren: A Foosball match…?

Thanks Lauren! Watch the band play Foosball and chat to us at Field Day 2013 below:

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