Alvvays Singer Molly Rankin Talks ‘Blue Rev’ and the Group’s Passionate Fans: ‘I Didn’t Know We Were Such a Treasured Nugget’

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EJ Panaligan editor With their first new album in five years and a long tour now underway, the members of Canadian dreampop outfit Alvvays are living the rock and roll dream. “We’re excited to be in a tin can for the next six weeks together, because that’s how healthy relationships function,” laughs singer Molly Rankin over Zoom from Toronto shortly before the band embarked on their U.S.

tour, which began last Friday in Chicago. Prior to that, the group had just returned from a small run of release-week shows in the U.K.

in support of their third album “Blue Rev,” which dropped on October 7th on Polyvinyl, and are now underway on their U.S. run which will conclude on November 18th in Boston. “There are many suitcases rolling around,” Rankin noted. “Lots of hasty cuts are being made about what to take and what not to take for the next six weeks.” But after a five-year gap between the new album and 2017’s critically lauded “Antisocialites,” what’s six weeks?

The delay was largely caused by circumstances out of the group’s control: along with the pandemic, during the songwriting process, a thief broke into Rankin’s apartment and stole a recorder full of demos, then a subsequent basement flood damaged much of the band’s gear.