It’s the point in the career trajectory when all cards are laid on the table, and every last chip pushed to the middle of pile. The “ambitious third album” is a rite of passage for aspiring legacy artists. ![]() Inclusion in this category is the highest distinction we can bestow, and signals the most important music being released throughout the year. On Blue Rev, Alvvays prove they were the ones all along.The RX is Uproxx Music’s stamp of approval for the best albums, songs, and music stories throughout the year. have ascended into the wiser terrain of their 30s, they still summon the dizzying emotions of your rookie years, when the sense of paralysis and betrayal seemed so acute in their world, college is a bore, pedantic poetry sucks, and solace is that one good song on the radio. This is an album to come home to, with squalling arrangements and melodies so immediate and sublime it’s like you’ve been singing them your whole life. Blue Rev is a crinkled collection of small dramas-a run-in at the pharmacy, a drive-thru break-up over milkshakes-with panoramic feeling. ![]() On their third album, the Toronto band returns like one of the old flames in their songs, ready to shatter your every defense. Polyvinyl / Transgressive Alvvays: Blue RevĪlvvays writes songs about what lasts, what fades, and what young pains resurface in the slipstream of memory.
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