Alvvays - "Blue Rev" label_United Artists Records asking and answering the question

asking and answering the question 'what do we sound like now

On their previous album

the collectible reissue features beguiling levels of in-the-moment presence

and company initially gathered in a Chicago studio in September 1963

all collected on this album

Alvvays - "Blue Rev" label_United Artists Records asking and answering the questionAlvvays' 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. 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." And there are some purely beautiful spans, too the church