Band: Alvvays

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Pop band from Canada, loving their new record.

[Mason]

Haven't heard the new one, but that first tape is alright, and they were alright live around that time too. It's guitar pop. You know guitar-based pop? It's like that.

I remember that they seemed to be getting a disproportionate amount of attention with that first album. For being a pretty standard touring band. Then I learned that their singer/guitarist is Molly Rankin of the Rankin Family. Which is fine, but not irrelevant.

[Angus Jung]

Svvcks

[Maurice]

Svvcks

Brvvtal.

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[Gibbs]

Dreams Tonite has a sweet music video:

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[dropthebeat]

Didn't care for the first record, new one rules.

[RSMurphy]

If I had my druthers, they wouldn't spell their name like that or have that name, but, by golly, Antisocialites is some dope-ass shit. That little interlude between "Plimsoll Punks" and "Your Type" should be a goddman song, and that key change in "Your Type"? My stars. Gonna eat this motherfucker up before it's reported that the drummer or bassist improperly touched someone.

Not Crap

[P.J. Craven]

Actually, I just heard this band for the first time in the bookstore of a museum about forty-five minutes ago, but despite sounding like so much of what I've hated about the last, oh, fifteen years of indie music, I was floored by the track "Party Police" and asked the staff to play it again so that I'd be able to find the material later.

So badly would I like to hate a band called "Alvvays" with a track called "Party Police," but despite all of that particular sort of reverb that usually reads as "vapid rich kids" to me, I was shocked to discover that I definitely liked it a lot.

Strong melody in that song, strong voice. Sorta like a Scottish '80s/'90s thing. Don't know anything else about the band yet.

[Madman Munt]

Svvcks

Brvvtal.

Vvapid Cvvap.

To be fair I thought I might enjoy 'em. I'm a sucker for the vibe they're after, like PJ sez, a Scottish '80s/'90s thing. But nothing is quite up to scratch- playing, singing, songs, production. It's an exhausted second-use herbal teabag in audio form; there's a faintest hint of flavour there.

They need to run their next album through a Muntronix T-Booster testicular expansion unit. Maybe work on touching people properly.

[RSMurphy]

They need to run their next album through a Muntronix T-Booster testicular expansion unit. Maybe work on touching people properly.

Originally I was going to add your sentiment to my druthers, but thought I might be changing the idea of how they want their band to sound. Fwiw I like to imagine a barbed wire-treatment on the songs, but I ain't mad at 'em (save for that terrible name).

[Mason]

Who told regular rich people about the Tascam 388 anyway.

[Andrew.]

I was talking to a friend the other weekend about his touring schedule, because he works at a homeless shelter here in town part of the year when he's not working as a tour manager. He said he was going to Europe with this pop band called Always in the new year. I'd never heard of them and I said it's weird for bands to choose names that are hard to google. And he says, yeah, well they spell it with two V's instead of a W. And I was like, OK. And then we started talking about something else.

[P.J. Craven]

Nothing else I've found has been quite this good, but this song alone renders them at least at the level of a Tommy Tutone or something (I mean that as a compliment):

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Sounds incredibly naïve and sheltered if you listen closely to the lyrics, but I don't think it matters.

[P.J. Craven]

New record sounds more mature lyrically (listening now). They have moments that make me cringe for about a second, but then I am drawn back to how good the songwriting and wash of sound can be. Can't imagine they're too great live, but I'd be willing to see them.

[emmanuelle cunt]

I'm not familiar with them but vvith a name like this they better be crap.

[P.J. Craven]

I really like this song, too:

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[emmanuelle cunt]

Godfuckingdammit! I like it too!



edit: It never occurred to me, but why is the letter "w" pronounced like "double-u" in English? "Double-vee" would make more sense.