Alvvays
indie pop twee pop jangle pop Canadian upbeat
Beginning with an attention-getting, slightly-flattened open E, “Adult Diversion” introduces the listener to what defines Alvvays: energetic, noisy and upbeat songs about longing. Long-distance longing, that is. Rankin complains about admiring someone from a distance. “Dreams Tonite”, a song on the following album, has similar themes. “I was working at a smoothie hut for a while in Toronto. Only one or two people would come in during the day and usually only to use the washroom. Read more on Last.fm.

Alvvays is a Grammy nominated dreampop band formed in Prince Edward Island, Canada in 2011. Reverb-drenched and bittersweet, Alvvays members Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan were childhood friends, who began playing music with Alec O'Hanley while in high school. Lead vocalist Molly Rankin is the daughter of John Morris Rankin from the popular Canadian folk family group the Rankin Family. Molly Rankin released a solo EP titled "She EP" in 2010 and then in 2011 formed Alvvays with MacLellan, O'Hanley, and new members Brian Murphy and Phil MacIsaac. Following tours with The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Peter Bjorn and John, the group recorded a full-length album, Alvvays, which was released by Royal Mountain Records (Canada), Polyvinyl Records (US), and Transgressive Records (Europe) in July 2014. Chad VanGaalen, John Agnello, and Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck all contributed to the album's production. Simon Vozick-Levinson, writing in Rolling Stone, called the eponymous album an "indie-pop wonder". Alvvays went to #1 on US college charts on August 5, 2014. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.