Blue Rev - Marbled Blue

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Both Polyvinyl titles have garnered praise across the music world, earning spots on year-end best-of lists by The Guardian, Pitchfork and The Ringer, among many others.

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Aside from those mix discrepancies this is super enjoyable, details otherwise missing or extremely drowned due to compression in the digital version shine through here, feels like a completely different mix!Alvvays released Blue Rev in October 2022, landing at Number 12 on Rolling Stone‘s year-end albums list later that year. Blue Rev (named after a youthful alcoholic beverage of choice supplied by the elder brothers of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) serves as a portal to the past. Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, Blue Rev, released via Transgressive.

The songs of Blue Rev thrive on immediacy and intricacy, so good on first listen that the subsequent spins where you hear all the details are an inevitability.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. 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.

Much like the sound, the sentiment is so layered and dreamy that the real pain underneath is obscured, almost invisible. A patron funded not for profit record label, we are an ethics first business who believe in gender equality and fair pay for all. We have a regular newsletter with the week’s new releases that goes out every Thursday or Friday too. I fall into that record’s world and I stay there until it’s uninhabitable and the CD doesn’t work in my car anymore. 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.

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? 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. I feel kind of bad, because every time people ask me what it tastes like, I say it’s disgusting,” she says. Antisocialites wrestled with the woes of the now, especially the anxieties of inching toward adulthood. Check with your local post office and see if they can provide more information on where your package is and when it is scheduled to be delivered.