Toronto-based band Alvvays' 2014 debut was an album I didn't hear in time for it to make my best of list that year, but if I had heard it, rest assured, it would have been near the top of the chart. Their 2017 album Antisocialites sees the band tightening up their willowy post-punk tinged indy rock and smoothing down the edges of their punky debut's leaning. While their new album lacks the wild abandon of some of the more shambling bits of their debut, and also misses out on the transcendent feel of "Archie, Marry Me" (which seemed to be everywhere in 2014-5), it does have a focus the debut lacked. This album is a few steps behind and ahead of the debut, and is no less enjoyable.
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