Alvvays - Blue Rev - Blue - VINYL LP

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