Alvvays "Blue Rev" 2023-12-15 giving it an almost Doom

giving it an almost Doom Metal feel

but to enhance their intricately structured compositions

they managed to be named both "Best New Band" and "Worst Band" in Creem Magazine's annual reader's poll

Following their formation in 1976

pop-tinged danceable tunes

Alvvays "Blue Rev" 2023-12-15 giving it an almost DoomAlvvays' 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