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Both Polyvinyl titles have garnered praise across the music world, earning spots on year-end best-of lists by The Guardian, Pitchfork and The Ringer, among many others. On the second day, they ripped through Blue Rev front-to-back twice, pausing only 15 seconds between songs and only 30 minutes between full album takes. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.In that moment, she pulls the ties tight between past, present, and future to ask hard questions about who we’re going to become, and how. Named for the sugary alcoholic beverage Rankin and MacLellan used to drink as teens on rural Cape Breton, Blue Rev looks both back at that country past and forward at an uncertain world, reckoning with what we lose whenever we make a choice about what we want to become. It’s reflecting on the energy of going home and confronting your past and the way that things have changed, something of which we’ve all experienced at some point.

Sure, it arrives a few years later than expected, but the answer for Alvvays is actually simple: They’ve changed gradually, growing on Blue Rev into one of their generation’s most complete and riveting rock bands. Lyrics like ‘those days, I’d never let you fall apart but things fade like the scent of a brand new car’ from After The Earthquake hint at the growth and changes of relationships; a tale of once having had the power and emotional adversity to get their partner through anything but now it’s beginning to fade.

But in October 2021, when they arrived at a Los Angeles studio with fellow Canadian Shawn Everett, he urged them to forget the careful planning they’d done and just play the stuff, straight to tape. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, Blue Rev, released via Transgressive.

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This hybridized approach allowed the band to harness each song’s absolute core, then grace it with texture and depth. Much like the sound, the sentiment is so layered and dreamy that the real pain underneath is obscured, almost invisible. The manipulated vocals over lo-fi production makes it a clever opus that brings you back to the wry humour that Alvvays are very good at- offsetting the other heartbreaking themes. And there are some purely beautiful spans, too—the church- organ fantasia of “Fourth Figure,” or the blue-skies bridge of “Belinda Says. At least the five-year wait was worthwhile: Blue Rev doesn’t simply reassert what’s always been great about Alvvays but instead reimagines it.