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• Toronto indie rock quintet Alvvays releases a wonderfully layered and detailed new album five years after “Antisocialites”!

  The Canadian band has never been better than on the 14 tracks of “Blue Rev” co-produced by Shawn Everett (Adele, Kacey Musgraves, The Killers). There are aggressive moments here again – the joyous and growling guitar solo at the heart of opener “Pharmacist” or the explosive cacophony in the middle of “Many Mirrors.” Other moments captivate with pure beauty – the church organ fantasy of “Fourth Figure” or the blue-skies bridge of “Belinda Says.”

  The power and magic of “Blue Rev” lies in Alvvays’ ability to bridge apparent opposites and fuse elements that seem at odds – cynicism and empathy, anger and levity, harmonies and dissonance.

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