Alvvays

not too crazy about this album but the new album by Mamalarky (another bad name) is pretty good

https://mamalarky.bandcamp.com/album/pocket-fantasy

I'm a week behind on listening to this, but I'm please they've kept up the tradition of giving one song that totally slaps and then a bunch of others I'd never remember even if I listened to them 100 times.

…“Pomeranian Spinster,” right(?)

Taught my first-ever Archie yesterday, an amusing grade 1 kid. You bet I played the Alvvays song for them.

I'vve been meaning to givve this band a listen but still havven't gotten around to it.

vvhy are you typing Vs like that

Has anyone figured out how to ask Siri to play this band?

I'vve been meaning to givve this band a listen but still havven't gotten around to it.

if you don't have a problem with indie pop, i would like to strongly encourage you to prioritize getting around to it.

xp to caek: I just tried "play the band always" and it played Alvvays on Spotify, not sure if that's Siri or Spotify getting it right

ConcernedApe (the guy who made Stardew Valley) made a video for "Many Mirrors" and it is giving me some badly-needed joy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2DFWOkioy4

i've sorta gotten over how kinda shitty 'blue rev' sounds because there's some incredible cuts on it. the run from 'belinda says' to 'fourth figure' is as good as, like, built to spill runs on their best 90s albums. i still think molly is the best guitar pop songwriter around right now. so many new guitar bands just don't have any tunes, but i feel like alvvays' songs will stand the test of time.

i wonder why, for example, a lot of interesting names from sarah records were overlooked; meanwhile this by numbers act is heavily promoted

sarah recs was 25 years prior...???

why do bad things happen to good labels

Everywhere I go, I hear songs by this band playing over the sound system. Supermarkets, coffee shops, the mall. It alvvays seems to be a different song — at least, I don’t recognize the songs from hearing to hearing. They seem like the kind of band I would like; I’m a corny old indie-pop sucker. But the singer’s voice is like a dentist’s drill in my ear. It’s geared to exactly the wrong timbre for me somehow, and I find it actually, actively, unbearably needling.