Rankin says the band will most likely attend the awards ceremony, noting it’s a full-circle moment since the album was recorded at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound. These cosmetic issues include: seam splits on either the jackets or inner sleeves, dinged or bent corners, and other slight imperfections on the packaging and colored vinyl. Albeit cut a little hot I beg to differ on it being a fatigue inducing pressing, it’s crank-able and opens up the more you turn it up.

All albums are accompanied by the Alvvays issue of Bandbox's signature fanzine, sporting interviews with the band, rare photos and career-spanning features. I was scoping our whole discography, and my phone was just going crazy and I didn’t want to be rude, so I wasn’t looking at anything,” she says. I feel kind of bad, because every time people ask me what it tastes like, I say it’s disgusting,” she says. We have a regular newsletter with the week’s new releases that goes out every Thursday or Friday too. 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.

Pharmacist,’ the first track on the album, is an exciting jumping off point for what is sure to be one of the albums of the year. Inspired By Belinda Carlisle’s Heaven Is A Place On Earth (of course), it’s a fictional story of a pregnant woman leaving with ‘nothing in pocket’ and seeing ‘how it goes’. The songs of Blue Rev thrive on immediacy and intricacy, so good on first listen that the subsequent spins where you hear all the details are an inevitability. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.

Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, Blue Rev, released via Transgressive. Every Bandbox includes the album of your choice (from over 100 options) and an issue of our full-color 16-page fanzine, centered around your selected artist.But the power and magic of Blue Rev stems from Alvvays’ ability to bridge ostensible binaries, to fuse elements that seem antithetical in single songs—cynicism and empathy, anger and play, clatter and melody, the soft and the steely.

It does play into the essence of our band, because we release albums with so much time in between and we [have] a ‘less is more’ kind of ideology,” she says. Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, ‘Blue Rev’, released via Transgressive. From the swirling, all-encompassing wall-of-sound guitars that drape around each song, to the pitch-bending Korg that is so central to the band’s sound, it’s Molly Rankin’s lyrics and vocals that catch me every single time. 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.The band] got on the phone and were just laughing about it, because we have very meek expectations and always have.

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. 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. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience.I fall into that record’s world and I stay there until it’s uninhabitable and the CD doesn’t work in my car anymore. If you encounter these issues with our vinyl, we will send replacements when appropriate and if copies of the records are still available. In fact, the band began writing and cutting its first bits soon after releasing 2017’s Antisocialites, that stunning sophomore record that confirmed the Toronto quintet’s status atop a new generation of winning and whip-smart indie rock.