ALVVAYS - Alvvays LP (10th Anniversary, Cerulean in Cloudy Clear vinyl)

Label: Polyvinyl

Remastered for vinyl by Bernie Grundman (2024).
Features vinyl-exclusive bonus track “Underneath Us".
Expanded packaging includes a deluxe gatefold jacket w/ lyrics and a fold-out poster illustrated by Chad VanGaalen.

In February 2024, just shy of the tenth anniversary of Alvvays self-titled debut, its second song and single, "Archie, Marry Me," reached a rarified threshold for our streaming age-one-hundred million listens through a single platform. For the worlds biggest pop stars thats an average achievement, but for an upstart indie rock band then writing in a backroad farmhouse on a Canadian island, it represented a staggering proof of connection and widespread resonance. Makes sense, after all: "Archie, Marry Me" is a softly stinging, pointedly funny portrait of a common end-of-youth predicament-to wed or not to wed, to involve the state and the possibility of financial ruin when youre already saddled with student loans and just trying to survive. Instantly relatable, it is an anthem about prescribed social expectations and delighting, however noncommittally, in outcast status.