Alvvays简介
Alvvays（发音为“always”）是一支成立于2011年的加拿大独立流行乐队，起源于爱德华王子岛的夏洛特敦，目前居住在安大略省多伦多。它由Molly Rankin（主唱和吉他），Kerri MacLellan（键盘），Alec O'Hanley（吉他），Abbey Blackwell（贝斯）和Sheridan Riley（鼓）组成。他们于 2014 年发行的同名首张专辑在美国大学排行榜上名列前茅。他们的第二张录音室专辑《Antisocialites》于2017年9月8日发行，并在2018年的朱诺奖上获得了朱诺奖年度另类专辑奖。这两张专辑都入围了北极星音乐奖。他们的第三张专辑《Blue Rev》于 2022 年 10 月 7 日发行
History
Formation and early years (2011–2015)
Alvvays performing at the 2014 Hillside FestivalAlvvays was formed in Toronto. Molly Rankin, the group's singer-songwriter, is the daughter of John Morris Rankin, a fiddler with the Celtic folk family collective the Rankin Family, who enjoyed international success in the 1990s.Rankin grew up writing music with her neighbour, keyboardist Kerri MacLellan. She later met guitarist and partner Alec O'Hanley at a concert in her teen years. With the help of O'Hanley, Rankin quietly released a solo extended play titled She in 2010.Alvvays was formed the following year, with Rankin assembling MacLellan, O'Hanley, drummer Phil MacIssac and bassist Brian Murphy to join the group. As the band grew up on neighbouring islands—Rankin and MacLellan on Cape Breton and O'Hanley, MacIsaac, and Murphy hailing from Prince Edward Island—Rankin was led to dub the band "merging of obscure islands in the east coast."She picked the name Alvvays because she liked that it had a "shred of sentiment and nostalgia." The spelling of the band name was due to the fact that there was already a band named Always signed to Sony.Alvvays performing at the Sasquatch! Music Festival in 2015They often made the long drives from Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island to Toronto, where they all eventually moved and secured jobs that allowed them to tour occasionally. The group toured extensively as supporting acts for bands such as Peter Bjorn and John and The Decemberists. Their debut album was recorded in Calgary with Chad VanGaalen in March 2013; Graham Walsh helped track the album while John Agnello helped mix it. After the album was complete, the group made cassette copies for festival bookers and fans at concerts to pass around.The group were signed to Polyvinyl Records on the strength of their SXSW performances and online fervor over the demo of their single "Adult Diversion". Alvvays, which was released by Royal Mountain Records (Canada), Polyvinyl Records (US), and Transgressive Records (Europe) in July 2014. Simon Vozick-Levinson, writing in Rolling Stone, called the eponymous album an "indie-pop wonder".[10] Alvvays went to #1 on US college charts on August 5, 2014. "Archie, Marry Me" became a minor hit.The single for "Archie, Marry Me" featured the b-side "Underneath Us" which was recorded sometime after the eponymous album.The group toured heavily in support of their debut, including slots at Glastonbury 2015 and Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in 2016. In addition to album material, Alvvays often performs cover songs of artists such as Kirsty MacColl ("He's On The Beach"), Camera Obscura ("Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken"), The Hummingbirds ("Alimony"), and Deerhunter ("Nosebleed") among others.
Antisocialites (2016–present)
Alvvays has been sporadically recording and writing their second studio album, since 2015. Several new original songs had been performed throughout 2014 and 2015, titled "Your Type" (often the opening song of the show), "New Haircut" (later re-titled "Saved By A Waif"), "Hey" and 2016 saw the addition of "Not My Baby", and "Dreams" to the new material often performed.Following the addition of other songs such as "Plimsoll Punks" as part of live shows in spring 2017, Alvvays released a teaser clip of a song called "In Undertow" from their sophomore album Antisocialites.[As well as songs already played at previous shows, new song titles from this record include "Already Gone", "Forget About Life", "In Undertow", "Lollipop (Ode to Jim)" and "Saved by a Waif". The album was released on September 8, 2017. A North American and European tour in support of the album has been announced for autumn 2017 and drummer Sheridan Riley joined the band for this tour. A second UK tour in Spring 2018 was announced in September 2017.On September 16, 2017 at a show in Antwerp, a male audience member jumped on stage and attempted to kiss singer Molly Rankin. Ken Veerman, the director at Trix, the show’s venue in Antwerp, released a statement via Facebook:Musical style and influencesAlvvays' music has been described as jangle pop by the music press and its members. According to Rankin, the band's emphasis is primarily on strong melodies, rather than for a specific genre: "If old people ask, I say it sounds like the Cranberries. If young people ask, I call it jangle pop. If a punk asks, I say it's pop." The band sounds similar to Best Coast and has often been compared to Camera Obscura; Rankin noted she shared vocalist Tracyanne Campbell's "fondness for the pathetic perspective."[7] Rankin sought inspiration from Stephen Merritt, frontman of the Magnetic Fields, appreciating the honest but lighthearted nature of his lyrics.[4] Rankin's personal influences include the Magnetic Fields, Teenage Fanclub, Dolly Mixture, the Smiths, Celine Dion, Pavement, the Primitives, and Oasis. While the band does not have an overt Celtic music sound, Rankin acknowledges she was immersed in the genre from childhood and it has a discernible influence on the way she sings and writes melodies.
