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Alvvays are two women, three men, a crate of C-86 tapes and a love of jingle-jangle.

Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan grew up as next-door neighbours in Cape Breton, lifting fiddles and folk-songs. Heartbreaks of different shades soon entered their lives, as did the music of Teenage Fanclub and Belle & Sebastian. Similar noisy melancholy drifted over to Prince Edward Island, finding Alec O'Hanley, Brian Murphy and Philip MacIsaac.

Convening in Toronto, the group have been making music since since dusk or maybe dawn, when stars were appearing or fading off. As a result, their debut self-titled album is both sun-splashed and twilit -- nine songs concealing drunkenness, defeat and death in tungsten-tinted pop that glitters like sea glass.

With needlepoint melody and verse, Rankin and O'Hanley's songs were recorded at Chad VanGaalen's Yoko Eno studio and mixed by Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) and John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Kurt Vile).

The resultant album is loud and clear and sure. Flood your ears.

The self-titled record will be released on July 21 in Europe on Transgressive Records. On July 22, the record will be released in the USA on Polyvinyl Record and Royal Mountain Records in Canada.

Alvvays

26 Aug 17	This Must Be The Place	Leeds, UK
27 Aug 17	St. Lukes	Glasgow, UK
28 Aug 17	Leadmill	Sheffield, UK
29 Aug 17	Talking Heads	Southampton, UK
02 Sep 17	End of the Road	Larmer Tree Gardens, UK
03 Sep 17	Institute 2	Birmingham, UK
04 Sep 17	Rescue Rooms	Nottingham, UK
06 Sep 17	Bullingdon Arms	Oxford , UK
07 Sep 17	Gorilla	Manchester, UK
08 Sep 17	Koko	London, UK
09 Sep 17	Thekla	Bristol, UK
11 Sep 17	Point Ephemere	Paris, FRANCE
12 Sep 17	Blue Shell	Cologne, GERMANY
13 Sep 17	Molotow	Hamburg, GERMANY
14 Sep 17	Musik & Frieden	Berlin, GERMANY
16 Sep 17	Trix	Antwerp, NETHERLANDS
17 Sep 17	Ekko	Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
18 Sep 17	Bitterzoet	Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS