But it's quiet and clearly a very good mastering, I'll agree it's better than the CD, which I heard it on first.

The luminous poser kiss-off of “Velveteen,” the lovelorn confusion of “Tile by Tile,” the panicked but somehow reassuring rush of “After the Earthquake”. The highly anticipated album is well worth the wait, with 14 songs hitting all the right chords and cementing their cult status. On the second day, they ripped through Blue Rev front-to-back twice, pausing only 15 seconds between songs and only 30 minutes between full album takes.The new wave-inspired Very Online Guy is a sarcastic ode to ‘reply guys’ who are desperate for attention on the internet. Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, ‘Blue Rev’, released via Transgressive. Then contact your credit card company, it may take some time before your refund is officially posted. because i know that it can't be a closetful of lace acquired recently who am i to debase in this economy? Named for the sugary alcoholic beverage Rankin and MacLellan used to drink as teens on rural Cape Breton, Blue Rev looks both back at that country past and forward at an uncertain world, reckoning with what we lose whenever we make a choice about what we want to become.

I was scoping our whole discography, and my phone was just going crazy and I didn’t want to be rude, so I wasn’t looking at anything,” she says. The highly anticipated album is well worth the wait, with 14 songs hitting all the right chords and cementing their cult status. I feel kind of bad, because every time people ask me what it tastes like, I say it’s disgusting,” she says. It’s reflecting on the energy of going home and confronting your past and the way that things have changed, something of which we’ve all experienced at some point. A patron funded not for profit record label, we are an ethics first business who believe in gender equality and fair pay for all.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. And then, as Everett has done on recent albums by The War on Drugs and Kacey Musgraves, he spent an obsessive amount of time alongside Alvvays filling in the cracks, roughing up the surfaces, and mixing the results. 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. As such, each slab of Antisocialites (2017) [orange + blue] and Blue Rev (2022) [black + blue] wax gets its own one-of-a-kind, sleeve-matching aesthetic spin.

Inspired By Belinda Carlisle’s Heaven Is A Place On Earth (of course), it’s a fictional story of a pregnant woman leaving with ‘nothing in pocket’ and seeing ‘how it goes’. Just cracking into that world without a big muscular infrastructure …it is a really tough arena to get your foot into the door. They never intended to take five years to finish their third album, the nervy joyride that is the compulsively lovable Blue Rev. In most cases we do not send full replacements for these types of issues, unless the damage is severe. Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers.despite being great new music, this particular pressing is nonetheless "exhausting and unnecessarily loud" (tons of vocal sibilance) as well as "very distorted" and "muffed, [with] vocals [that] are barely audible. Alvvays are pleased to be putting everyone out of their misery by announcing their new album, Blue Rev, released via Transgressive. 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. 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? Classic indie pop dynamics meet sweetly dark lyrical turns for an album that improves listen on listen.

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! These cosmetic issues include: seam splits on either the jackets or inner sleeves, dinged or bent corners, and other slight imperfections on the packaging and colored vinyl. I thought the bass was lacking in some tracks on streaming, but the bass and drums sound massive on this pressing. With so many vinyl variants available for the new album, I thought it'd be best to compile a list here. Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description).It’s that first visit to your hometown after moving away and noticing the club you first got knocked back from as a preteen is now a bank, or something.