Alvvays "Blue Rev" punk without the long

without the long

with Brahl assisting with additional engineering

After a seemingly infinite absence

'The Hills' and 'Can't Feel My Face'

Robert Christgau said

Alvvays "Blue Rev" punk without the longAlvvays' 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