Alvvays - Blue Rev (Marbled Blue Vinyl) FOUR70709.1

Alvvays - Blue Rev (Marbled Blue Vinyl) FOUR70709.1Alvvays' 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

It gets up

Pressed on black vinyl

Harmonizer slices through psychic cloud cover

Their folk-rock sound made an instant impact with their 1987 debut

"Hollow Moon

Busted (Live at Beachland Tavern March 31

Recently signing to ORG Music for a co-release with Aquarium Drunkard

" "Sweet Sacrifice" and "Good Enough

and #2 on the Billboard Top 200

The clarion call/siren sound of his guitar

as well as Don Everly

snake-curl twang and singing-wire harmonics - in a solo clarity that runs from jig-like joy to deep-note meditation