There are newly aggressive moments here—the gleeful and snarling guitar solo at the heart of opener “Pharmacist,” or the explosive cacophony near the middle of “Many Mirrors.

I feel kind of bad, because every time people ask me what it tastes like, I say it’s disgusting,” she says. It’s a problem in terms of waking up in the middle of the night with certain lyrics spinning around my head or knowing most of the chords before Pitchfork have even published their review, but sometimes, I just can’t help myself. Despite naming her band’s third album after the beverage, Rankin admits she hasn’t tasted Blue Rev in 20 years, nor has she heard from the alcohol company that makes it since the album came out. 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.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. Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.

But in October 2021, when they arrived at a Los Angeles studio with fellow Canadian Shawn Everett, he urged them to forget the careful planning they’d done and just play the stuff, straight to tape. Just cracking into that world without a big muscular infrastructure …it is a really tough arena to get your foot into the door. 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. For items that are dispatched using our standard service, we ask that you wait 14 days from the date of dispatch before reporting any items as undelivered.The highly anticipated album is well worth the wait, with 14 songs hitting all the right chords and cementing their cult status. if i wasn't polite stuck out my hand grabbed it and ran and your looking took it forward and you're looking to the plan woke up in the rain woke up in a sweat now you're living in a condo and you wanna forget there was a time when someone could've said you can't recreate all the things that are read pomeranian spinster glass slipper never fit it took a while but i'm trying to get over it presbyterian ministers travel in packs and never split they deviate in the tiniest concepts i heard you ask me to smile detour right off of the road don't ever ask me to smile which dress is she going to wear?

I thought the bass was lacking in some tracks on streaming, but the bass and drums sound massive on this pressing. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). Rankin says the band will most likely attend the awards ceremony, noting it’s a full-circle moment since the album was recorded at Los Angeles’ Sunset Sound. But it's quiet and clearly a very good mastering, I'll agree it's better than the CD, which I heard it on first.And everyone in the band has played on the record, so we all feel like we’re part of this thing that we made together. despite being great new music, this particular pressing is nonetheless "exhausting and unnecessarily loud" (tons of vocal sibilance) as well as "very distorted" and "muffed, [with] vocals [that] are barely audible. Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, ‘Blue Rev’, released via Transgressive. It’s reflecting on the energy of going home and confronting your past and the way that things have changed, something of which we’ve all experienced at some point.

We have a regular newsletter with the week’s new releases that goes out every Thursday or Friday too. On the second day, they ripped through Blue Rev front-to-back twice, pausing only 15 seconds between songs and only 30 minutes between full album takes. benevolent collegiate rolled his eyes and walked away and if you could believe it his stride is lengthened by his sense of wonder oh well i lost that shine didn't i? Alvvays’ self-titled debut will turn 10 years old next summer, but Rankin says celebration plans are still up in the air. Certain items can take longer to source than the estimated week, particularly during busy trading periods and may take longer to arrive at our warehouse.This couldn’t become another album I’d be so obsessed with that I had no choice to fall out of love with it in a month’s time.