ALVVAYS 'Alvvays' LP

Orange colour vinyl re-issue via Polyvinyl!

ALVVAYS are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle. Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan grew up as next-door neighbours in Cape Breton, lifting fiddles and folksongs. Heartbreaks of different shades soon entered their lives, as did the music of Teenage Fanclub and Belle & Sebastian. Similar noisy melancholy drifted over to Prince Edward Island, finding Alec O'Hanley, Brian Murphy and Philip MacIsaac. Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn, when stars were appearing or fading off. As a result, their debut self-titled album is both sun-splashed and twilit -- nine songs concealing drunkenness, defeat and death in tungsten-tinted pop that glitters like sea glass. "...somewhere between the sun-drenched shores of California and the preppy Scottish countryside." -Pitchfork

1. ADULT DIVERSION
2. ARCHIE, MARRY ME
3. ONES WHO LOVE YOU
4. NEXT OF KIN
5. PARTY POLICE
6. THE AGENCY GROUP
7. DIVES
8. ATOP A CAKE
9. RED PLANET