Alvvays - Blue Rev (October 7, 2022) Album • Page 5

Get out

 

I’m saying it’s the best track I’ve heard all year lmao

 

this pairs so well with the new Beths

 

they're interesting records to compare, ostensibly the same subgenre, both third albums that (imo) level up but totally different approaches sonically, lyrically etc.

 

I absolutely love The Beths’ debut full length, but I can only clumsily describe their second and latest as “way less catchy”, to my ear anyway.

 

Big disagree but catchiness is subjective so it’s okay

 

"Mars the God of War" is literally one of the catchiest songs i know

 

Yeah, it’s super weird what does and does not stick with someone. I used to get weirdly defensive about that, whether it was my liking something I thought others should or vice versa. It’s a strange phenomenon.

 

Now getting into the lyrics with this, Molly really outdid herself here.

 

They fucking crushed it. I need to listen more before I can make more articulate comments but this is pretty much exactly what I hoped for.

 

Good album even my wife likes it!

 

Such a deceptively complex band. The song structures are strange and exciting, the best part is when they rip or float into a bridge (ie, Belinda Says, Easy On Your Own?, Bored in Bristol). The Pitchfork review nailed it when they highlighted the key changes.

they’ll visit these cathartic moments so briefly and then they are gone forever, it’s such a tease and I love it.

 

As someone who covets the other 2 records, and as someone who liked but was not blown away by the pharmacist back when it dropped over summer, I gotta say I'm blown away by this record. The Smiths influence on Pressed. Belinda is perfect. Wow wow wow.

 

"pressed" makes me think of mccarthy

 

This is REALLY REALLY good. On my first listen it didn’t do a ton but now every single time I listen I fall more in love.

 

I'm biased but might be the album of the year

 

been on replay all weekend. got my wife obsessed as well.

 

Are you in the band

 

I wish :(

But really just they spent most of 2014-18 or so as my favorite band and as such I'm probably still a bit hyperbolic about them. Not many bands I'd be rooting harder to get the level up record from (and after being slightly disappointed by Antisocialites as a whole/the whole 4+ year new music break thing I'd be lying if I said I expected this would be this good).

 

It’ll be hard for any record by anyone to dethrone Big Thief for me, but if it happens, this would be the one to do it. I’ve been walking around all day with multiple parts of multiple songs stuck in my head at the same time, and as soon as I’m done listening, I want to start it again. Just a masterclass of a record.

I think my favorites right now are EOYO?, After the Earthquake, Many Mirrors, Pomeranian Spinster, and Belinda Says.

Cannot fucking wait to see them again on Friday.

 

Many Mirrors, Velveteen, and EOYO probably my favorites so far

 

No one is talking about Tom Verlaine and it’s not cool y’all

 

I’ve said this before but more bands should make albums without any bad songs. It sounds so simple, but really goes a long way.

 

Never noticed until today that “Really Online Guy” has zero guitars in it.

 

This rocks