The long-awaited new album by Alvvays due this fall

Alvvays revealed new album Blue Rev will be released via Polyvinyl on October 7. The song “Pharmacist” is the first to be released from the album, the Canadian band's first in five years.

Writing and recording initally started after 2017’s Antisocialites. But someone broke into singer Molly Rankin’s apartment and swiped a recorder full of demos, one day before a basement flood nearly ruined all the band’s gear. They subsequently lost a rhythm section and, due to COVID-19 border closures, couldn’t rehearse for months with their new drummer Sheridan Riley and bassist Abbey Blackwell.

In October 2021, when they arrived at a Los Angeles studio with fellow Canadian Shawn Everett, he urged them to forget the careful planning they’d done and just play straight to tape. On the second day, they went through the Blue Rev songs front-to-back twice, pausing only 15 seconds between songs and only 30 minutes between full album takes. And then, as Everett has done on recent albums by The War on Drugs and Kacey Musgraves, he spent a long time alongside Alvvays mixing the results.

Tour Dates:

08/16 - Chicago, IL @ Here and There Festival - The Salt Shed
10/14 - Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theatre $
10/15 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave. $
10/18 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot $
10/19 - Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory $
10/20 - Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom $
10/21 - Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre $
10/22 - Seattle, WA @ The Moore Theatre $
10/24 - Arcata, CA @ Arcata Theatre Lounge $
10/26 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore $
10/27 - San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore $
10/29 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern $
10/30 - San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park $
11/02 - Austin, TX @ Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater $
11/04 - Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall - Downstairs $
11/05 - Dallas, TX @ The Studio at The Factory $
11/07 - Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse $
11/08 - Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works $
11/09 - Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel $
11/11 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club $
11/12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall $
11/15 - New Haven, CT @ College Street Music Hall $
11/16 - New York, NY @ Kings Theater $
11/18 - Boston, MA @ Roadrunner $
$ w/ Slow Pulp

Track listing:

Pharmacist
Easy On Your Own?
After The Earthquake
Tom Verlaine
Pressed
Many Mirrors
Very Online Guy
Velveteen
Tile By Tile
Pomeranian Spinster
Belinda Says
Bored in Bristol
Lottery Noises
Fourth Figure