Alvvays "Blue Rev" Color:Blue making the leaps from the

making the leaps from the dirge-blues of "Jack-Ass" to the hazy party rock of "Where's It's At" seem not so great

the group has garnered 11 platinum and 38 gold record certifications worldwide with its 2008 offering All Hope Is Gone debuting at #1 in seven countries-including the U

is sample-based and contains no raps

The album features two vocal collaborations: Kroeger and American industrial metal singer Marilyn Manson

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Alvvays "Blue Rev" Color:Blue making the leaps from theAlvvays' third album, the nervy joyride that is the compulsively lovable Blue Rev, doesn't simply reassert what's always been great about Alvvays but instead reimagines it. They have, in part and sum, never been better. There are newly aggressive moments here the gleeful and snarling guitar solo at the heart of opener "Pharmacist," or the explosive cacophony near the middle of "Many Mirrors." And there are some purely beautiful spans, too the church