Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn.
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.
Molly Rankin's distinctive vocals and erudite lyrics taking center stage against a kaleidoscopic backdrop of pop, shoegaze, punk, and some brand new tricks befitting a band that sounds wise beyond it's years.
Their most emotive and heartfelt work to date, Jump Rope Gazers stares down all the hard parts of living in communion with other people, even at a distance...
Split blue/red A/B-side LP pressing of The Beths' debut Future Me Hates Me, ten sharp, hook-filled tracks including 'Great No One', bright harmonies and punchy guitar pop on colored vinyl.
Spy - Seen Enough 12" (orange/black/white splatter vinyl). Six brief, brutal hardcore cuts recorded live with Jack Shirley; the 12" captures the band’s raw shove, short, loud, and immediate. Representative
Across the ten tracks that make up the seventh and newest Widowspeak record, intimate spaces and stages of love are captured with a nostalgic, vaseline-coated lens.