Alvvays - Blue Rev [CD] UGK and Kurtis Lawrence on drums

and Kurtis Lawrence on drums

as a wise man once said

heavier and more uncompromising than anything that had come before

the lyrics get a bit vague - bordering on equivocality at times - which has it's advantages and disadvantages

Vivaldi: Argippo RV 697-B (Prague 1730): Aria

Alvvays - Blue Rev [CD] UGK and Kurtis Lawrence on drumsAlvvays' 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