Alvvays Faced Down Challenges (and Came Out Better for Them) to Make Blue Rev

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.alvvaysband's new album is out today. We spoke with Molly Rankin about 'Blue Rev' and the changes the band has gone through in recent years

. In many ways, the LA-based Canadian Everett was the perfect fit.

“I think that we were big fans of just the landscape he creates with music,” Rankin says, recalling that Everett was initially only available to produce half of the album because he’s in such high demand — but ultimately deciding to do the entire thing once recording began. “I think he has such a grasp of the science of audio as well where he knows how to expand things and give things space. It’s just a really unique skill to be an artist and a scientist at once.

This time around, Rankin wanted to make another change by keeping things lyrically lighter than the previous two records. The band’s debut had gut-wrenching songs about heartbreak , whereasused the metaphor of relationships falling apart for the band’s fraught period where they considered parting ways.that touch on the subject , Rankin was much more interested in exploring her wry sense of humor.

“You just realize that it’s never really home again in a certain way — the home that you knew,” Rankin says. “Grappling with that loss and also rekindling your love of a place is just a really complicated space to occupy, and the process is pretty beautiful.

“That song is a great description of everything that I’ve been through, Alec’s been through and our band too,” Rankin explains. “Also, that one is a little bit of Alec’s baby, where he brought it to me and I put a chorus on it. It was just a nice sentiment to describe our journey.”

 

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