{"id":62119,"date":"2017-09-27T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T15:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=62119"},"modified":"2017-10-26T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T00:53:15","slug":"alvvays-antisocialites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2017\/09\/27\/alvvays-antisocialites\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvvays: Antisocialites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-62120\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antisocialites_opt.png?fit=300%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antisocialites_opt.png 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antisocialites_opt-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antisocialites_opt-125x125.png 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Alvvays climbed to indie stardom just over three years ago, following the release of their self-titled debut album and featured single \u201cArchie, Marry Me.\u201d And the Canadian outfit has kept busy since: Alvvays has graced the stages of Coachella, SXSW, Lollapalooza, and Glatsonbury, all while drafting their sophomore album, <em>Antisocialites<\/em>.<br \/>\n<em>Antisocialites<\/em>, released in early September, presented the tracks that had been intermittently penned, recorded, and crowd-tested along the road. A cohesive build from the album\u2019s predecessor, <em>Antisocialites<\/em> maintains the lax, pop sound Alvvays established in their debut. The album features the same metallic guitar and sugary vocals Alvvays fans came to love, yet <em>Antisocialites<\/em> is anything but predictable. Unexpected instrumentation and quirky songwriting distance the album from a dream pop genre otherwise all too familiar.<br \/>\n\u201cPlimsoll Punks,\u201d the third single off of the album, features complicated, layered guitar throughout broken up by an ambient, spacey break in the second half. Another departure from the band\u2019s typical airy soundscape, \u201cHey\u201d offers an energetic, new wave-esque groove. The track is a satisfying change of pace, truncating the complaisant blocks of the album.<br \/>\nThe songwriting prowess can be attributed to Molly Rankin, the lyricist, composer, and frontwoman of the band. Rankin has oft rejected a musical identity centered around genre; Alvvays has been labeled nearly every hybrid pop genre ever conceived\u2014dream pop, jangle pop, indie pop, synth pop and others\u2014but the band emphasizes melody as its primary character. Perhaps the band\u2019s blurry genre focus can be attributed to Rankin\u2019s eclectic influences. In fact, Rankin sites inspiration in the Celtic music on which she was raised: Rankin\u2019s father was the violinist of the Rankin Family, a Celtic folk group. Rankin also lists influence from the Smiths, Celine Dion, and Pavement, among others. Mismatched as her influences may be, the oddities and details of <em>Antisocialites<\/em> are what make the album memorable.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: 1 (In Undertow), 3 (Plimsoll Punks), 6 (Hey)<br \/>\nDo Not Play: none<br \/>\nWritten by Madeline Connor on 09\/20\/2017 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriting eccentricities differentiate Alvvays from typical dream pop on their sophomore LP Antisocialites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15994,"featured_media":62120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3729,3741,4,3235,181],"tags":[7677,7678,5671],"class_list":["post-62119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cbi","category-cbi-music","category-music","category-music-reviews","category-rock-rotation","tag-alvvays","tag-antisocialites","tag-madeline-connor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Antisocialites_opt.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}