Alvvays

Alvvays is a five-piece band led by singer-songwriter Molly Rankin, that turns out jangly pop songs with lush arrangements and sharp hooks. Their music is fairly up-tempo and rolls much in the way that summery pop typically tends to. Rankin's vocals are the driving force on the songs, and she delivers them with a mixture of indie pop spark and dream pop mistiness, even when the whole band downshifts every now and then. Quite a few of their songs have the group hug inducing, sing-along-with-friends quality that occasionally crosses into the anthemic territory, but only slightly. Thus far they have been taking relatively longer breaks between albums, and each time coming back having leveled up with respect to their songwriting and execution.