Blue Rev - Marbled Blue

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From the swirling, all-encompassing wall-of-sound guitars that drape around each song, to the pitch-bending Korg that is so central to the band’s sound, it’s Molly Rankin’s lyrics and vocals that catch me every single time. This hybridized approach allowed the band to harness each song’s absolute core, then grace it with texture and depth.

At least the five-year wait was worthwhile: Blue Rev doesn’t simply reassert what’s always been great about Alvvays but instead reimagines it. Pharmacist,’ the first track on the album, is an exciting jumping off point for what is sure to be one of the albums of the year. A patron funded not for profit record label, we are an ethics first business who believe in gender equality and fair pay for all. In the edit page, go to the 'Metadata' tab and add your Juno artist, label or release page for listeners to purchase your release / releases. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Notice the way, for instance, that “Tom Verlaine” bursts into a jittery jangle; then marvel at the drums and drum machines ricocheting off one another, the harmonies that crisscross, and the stacks of guitar that rise between riff and hiss, subtle but essential layers that reveal themselves in time. And there are some purely beautiful spans, too—the church- organ fantasia of “Fourth Figure,” or the blue-skies bridge of “Belinda Says.

In fact, the band began writing and cutting its first bits soon after releasing 2017’s Antisocialites, that stunning sophomore record that confirmed the Toronto quintet’s status atop a new generation of winning and whip-smart indie rock. To commemorate the one-year anniversary of their album Blue Rev, Alvvays have announced a super-limited-edition reissue filled with the sugary alcoholic beverage the LP is named after.Named for the sugary alcoholic beverage Rankin and MacLellan used to drink as teens on rural Cape Breton, Blue Rev looks both back at that country past and forward at an uncertain world, reckoning with what we lose whenever we make a choice about what we want to become. The results are beyond question: Blue Rev has more twists and surprises than Alvvays’ cumulative past, and the band seems to revel in these taken chances.

These cosmetic issues include: seam splits on either the jackets or inner sleeves, dinged or bent corners, and other slight imperfections on the packaging and colored vinyl. Normally it’s just a bunch of people that happened to be available on that specific day or something, in the way that we would throw albums together in the past.Released on October 7, Blue Rev is Alvvays‘ third studio album and the first recorded with new members, Sheridan Riley (drums) and Abbey Blackwell (bass).