Alvvays - Antisocialites - VINYL LP

The debut album from Alvvays features standout tracks InchArchie, Marry MeInch and InchAdult Diversion.Inch Now on orange vinyl with printed cardstock and innersleeve with lyrics. The album (recorded at Chad VanGaalen's Yoko Eno studio and mixed by Graham Walsh and John Agnello) is loud and clear and sure. Flood your ears. Album Tracks 1. Adult Diversion 2. Archie, Marry Me 3. Ones Who Love You 4. Next of Kin 5. Party Police 6. The Agency Group 7. Dives 8. Atop a Cake 9. Red Planet

Limited blue colored vinyl LP pressing. Alvvays' third album, the nervy joyride that is the compulsively lovable Blue Rev, doesn't simply reassert what's always been great about Alvvays but instead reimagines it. They have, in part and sum, never been better. There are newly aggressive moments here-the gleeful and snarling guitar solo at the heart of opener InchPharmacist,Inch or the explosive cacophony near the middle of InchMany Mirrors.Inch And there are some purely beautiful spans, too-the church- organ fantasia of InchFourth Figure,Inch or the blue-skies bridge of InchBelinda Says.Inch 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. The luminous poser kiss-off of InchVelveteen,Inch the lovelorn confusion of InchTile by Tile,Inch the panicked but somehow reassuring rush of InchAfter the Earthquake.Inch Album Tracks 1. Pharmacist 2. Easy on Your Own? 3. After the Earthquake 4. Tom Verlaine 5. Pressed 6. Many Mirrors 7. Very Online Guy 8. Velveteen 9. Tile By Tile 10. Pomeranian Spinster 11. Belinda Says 12. Bored in Bristol 13. Lottery Noises 14. Fourth Figure

In February 2024, just shy of the tenth anniversary of Alvvays' self-titled debut, it's second song and single, InchArchie, Marry Me,Inch reached a rarified threshold for our streaming age-one-hundred million listens through a single . For the world's biggest pop stars that's an average achievement, but for an upstart indie rock band then writing in a backroad farmhouse on a Canadian island, it represented a staggering proof of connection and widespread resonance. Makes sense, after all InchArchie, Marry MeInch is a softly stinging, pointedly funny portrait of a common end-of-youth predicament-to wed or not to wed, to involve the state and the possibility of financial ruin when you're already saddled with student loans and just trying to survive. Instantly relatable, it is an anthem about prescribed social expectations and delighting, however noncommittally, in outcast status. Now remastered and reissued with deep cut InchUnderneath UsInch to mark a glorious decade of deadpan jangle, Alvvays feels that way from end to end-literally, from the opening stalking-you-with-love anthem InchAdult DiversionInch to the ennui escapism of sci-fi closer InchRed Planet.Inch In a little more than 30 minutes, Alvvays give us a song about loving someone to actual death (InchNext of KinInch), how keeping secrets will destroy what you think you want (InchThe Agency GroupInch), and another incisive song about the societal demands of love and marriage (InchAtop a CakeInch). When Molly Rankin, Alec O'Hanley, Kerri MacLellan, and Brian Murphy cut these songs with Chad VanGaalen in 2013, long before they had a record deal, they were, in fact, young adults trying to figure out these encroaching exigencies for themselves. Again, these problems don't age; some of us just happen to be lucky enough to age out of them.Little of this would matter if the songs themselves didn't stick, if the melod