#Plimsoll Punks

[thatlenguy]

ok so i'm trying to work on. comics again and it is taking me so long i legitimately do not think it would work to do weekly/bi-weekly updates with my usual schedule rn. how august of 2023 me wrote and drew all of otf in like one month i know not. Current plan is i'll just keep going on the side till i hit page 12 then i'll put em out weekly and hopefully 12 weeks is enough to illustrate another 12 and so on. man. why are comics so hard.

[trippercrazy]

ALVVAYS

[seymourmusicclub]

Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks [Official Audio]

[imalicja]

The aim of the game is to answer and then tag some mutuals you wanna know better or catch up with.

Favorite color(s): hmm maybe magenta purple. i love getting my nails done with a color like this

Last song played: plimsoll punks - alvvays

Currently reading: 9 books ;) but something that is translated into english that im reading is Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich and something im reading in english is Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation by Sunaura Taylor (both nonfiction and both amazing...)

Currently craving: a swim. my swimming pool is closed till september lol

Coffee or tea: both, but i definitely cannot live without coffee.

thank you for the tag my lovely @komplikacije <3

im tagging @all-mirrors @katoprofen @newplaces2drown @rentz @rybreads <3

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Tracklist:

In Undertow • Dreams Tonite • Plimsoll Punks • Your Type • Not My Baby • Hey • Lollipop (Ode To Jim) • Already Gone • Saved By A Waif • Forget About Life

Spotify ♪ Bandcamp ♪ Youtube

[housepilled]

ALVVAYS ALVVAYSSSS ALVVAYS WHAT ARE YOUR FAV SONGS

currently archie marry me, ones who love you, in undertow, plimsoll punks, after the earthquake, and belinda says

[dacuslucy]

AMELIE THAT WAS THE MOST YOU JEOPARDY GAME EVER. OBVIOUSLY ALL THE BOYGENIUS CLUES + PLIMSOLL OF PLIMSOLL PUNKS FAME! (because as far as i’m considered alvvays invented/founded whatever [a] plimsoll is). the plimsoll answer especially made me think of you

YES OMG OMG THEIS WJATS LOTERALLY TEH PERFECT YAME OF JEPPARDU EVER I CANY BELIEVE BOYGENIUS AND EVERUTHING AAAAAAAA

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Alvvays defined

This one is gonna be a fun post for me to make. Listening to the monarchs of musical bliss, the indie pop idols, Alvvays, every time, without fail feels like an inherent act of musical artistic appreciation, like I can't help but to think about how great music as an art form is. To make it all the more impressive, the band manage to maintain that high constantly throughout an album, and across albums. I don't tend to buy into the whole "no bad songs" thing because I find it undermines the value of your appreciation if you ignore flaws as opposed to loving something in spite (or even because) of them, but when it comes to Alvvays, I genuinely don't dislike a single song, even really a single moment, they've created. They aren't perfect of course, and we'll get into that a little bit in a second, but I'm convinced they are one of the best indie acts going. Let's get into why.

Alvvays (self-titled)

When I say this album is one-note, you'd be forgiven for thinking I found the album monotonous, boring, and repetitive. You'd be forgiven, but mistaken. This debut album from Alvvays is consistently exciting and establishes a core identity expertly over a concise 33 minute runtime, which also helps ensure that their lack of experimentation isn't felt. Featuring flowery and left-field lyrics (see Adult Diversion), dreamy guitar lines (see Atop a Cake) and the perfectly restrained rhythms to facilitate the euphoria of each and every song, the Alvvays sound was focused and flawlessly executed from day one.

I did mention that Alvvays weren't perfect in the preamble, and while they came out on their first album more or less fully formed, that applies as much to many negatives of theirs as it does to positives, and the clearest negative I've found in their discography is inconsistent album sequencing. I haven't tried, but I get the impression their albums, especially their later two, wouldn't be too badly affected by playing them on shuffle, although each project certainly has its own identity which helps them feel cohesive.

Even with that negative though, the sheer quality of these songs make it fantastic, especially considering it's a debut. Not many acts are immediately gifted enough to get me whipped up in the pure joy of music like songs such as Archie, Marry Me, Party Police, Atop a Cake, and Red Planet do.

Apple Music link

Antisocialites

What do you get if you take the exceptional qualities of the last album, and add some refinement and slight experimentation, along with punchier production? A 10/10 album called Antisocialites, apparently. You hear it all right off the bat too, with In Undertow introducing you to the album with a washed out distorted guitar that feels like the aural version of a low wave on the beach immersing your feet. That blissful, "life is great", picturesque holiday feeling pervades this album entirely. You cannot love music, hear this album and not feel joy. It's just impossible, and I will not be convinced otherwise. Alvvays had me by the balls from the first note of the album and took the opportunity to give me a (barely metaphorical) orgasm.

I must admit, I struggle to be at all analytical about this album, as you may have noticed, simply because this capacity to induce joy and awe almost evades analysis. I can tell you it's indie pop. I can tell you it's brilliant and one-of-a-kind, but I just cannot tell you why beyond what I have here. It all just either seems so perfect but so obvious, or just completely indescribable.

Again, I don't like to say that something is without flaws, I don't like sounding so uncritically adoring, but every song on here (except one that I will get to) is noteworthy and awe-inspiring to me. The perfect energy of Plimsoll Punks and Your Type, the girl-group charm of Not My Baby, the dynamism of Hey... I could easily go on, but I'll spare you any further pious rambling, and leave it at the promise that every song is incredible in its own unique way that branches naturally from the sound established on the band's debut.

The one criticism I have that I hinted at earlier, was that the sequencing was a little awkward again, particularly in that Already Gone, a song that is well below the album's par for me (although still great in a vacuum because of course it is, Alvvays are almost annoyingly good at this whole music thing), felt forced in between Lollipop (Ode to Jim) and Saved by a Waif. I'm glad it's a song that has seen the light of day, and I think there's definitely a version of this album with that song on it that feels more natural, perhaps having it by the slightly slow Dreams Tonite as opposed to being sandwiched between very high energy, happy songs, but it just doesn't work here in my opinion.

Anyway, that's about enough fawning for a [blank] defined post, so overall thoughts: Alvvays' middlebrow status-quo rituals more than sufficed here and if you like indie pop or any surrounding genres and don't listen to it, you're stinky and I don't respect you until you do. Do it. It's good, you'll like it. Look, I'll even link it for you:

Apple Music link

Blue Rev

And after a quick 5-year non-hiatus- induced break filled with drama, personal and global (Donald Trump's presidential era gets strictly no Alvvays, which I respect), the frankly too talented Alvvays returned with their most diverse album yet, starting with a slightly garage-leaning rendition of their sound with Pharmacist and Easy On Your Own? before getting back to their old sound, and their best version of it yet, at that, with After the Earthquake (obligatory mention that the final "are you awake now?" that Molly Rankin belts out is eargasmic), which makes for an incredible introduction to the album, telling you to expect a lot of variety, but in a way that is true to their already established identity.

Then they try their hand at being a The Smiths cover band without getting into legal trouble with Pressed, and they mimic their indie royalty predecessors with an apparent ease that is mind-boggling and follow it up with the sincerely sweet Many Mirrors which, thematically, appears to act as a reprieve from the stories of romantic hardship to tell a, presumably, more reality-founded story of a situation that is as effortless as it was at the onset of their feelings.

Then there's a sharp left-turn towards the delightful Voidz-esque Very Online Guy that just confirms that the band are having as much fun as you are, as the band takes the soundscape of the early internet to inspire the instrumentation on the track about a guy who is, get this, very online. It goes over cyber stalking, constant opinions, and similarly modern stressors with a sense of humour that makes it go down so easy.

Then Velveteen (yes we're going more or less track-by-track, this album is chaotic in the best way) serves as the payoff to mentions of "velvet" found in other songs on the album, giving those mentions an added level of meaning retroactively before flowing perfectly (credit where it's due) to the similarly mellow, and distinctly melancholic Tile By Tile and then reminds you what band you're listening to by taking the foot off the brakes with the ball of tired altruist energy of Pomeranian Spinster, my personal favourite Alvvays track that doesn't even get enough love amongst Alvvays fans from what I've seen. It's a typical length, 3 and a half minute song that is so incredibly fun and charismatic it feels like half that at least.

From there, you're given a little bit of a break with the Belinda Carlisle-approved Belinda Says which is a beautiful anthem about just making it work. Being dealt a shitty hand but going all in anyway and figuring it out as you go.

From there, the album mostly just continues to wind-down, which is far from a flaw. In fact I think it was necessary. Constantly high energy isn't as easy to pull off over 30 minutes as it is over 40 and taking that extra few moments to just bring you back down to reality pays dividends for an album that gives you transcendent moments like they have an overabundance of them, which I imagine isn't actually far from the truth.

All that positive stuff being said, the album does have it's flaws. Personally, Fourth Figure strikes me as tonally redundant, and while the sequencing is more or less on point here, the album does still feel a little too messy to match or surpass the quality of Antisocialites, even if it does provide it's own charm.

Apple Music link

Playlist

Frankly, I'd recommend just listening to the albums, in chronological order even, but for those who, for whatever reason, would prefer a playlist of some of their best, most representative stuff (at least in my humble opinion), that can be found below. I hope it helps you in some way!

Spotify

Apple Music

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Part 2: Note "Musik an David"

White Fence & Ty Segall - Time

Dear Meadow - Sleepy Silver Door 

Aguaturbia - Heartbreaker 

Rollo Weissensee & Blend - Pastis Duval 

Shabjeed & Al Nather - Mtak Mtak

Arca - Arca (komplettes Album, ich revidiere meine Entscheidung zu Best Album und wähle dieses :) arca hat unter anderem das fka twigs Album mit produziert) 

Shygirl - Freak 

Coucou Chloe - Flip U 

Sevdaliza- Oh My God 

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The Lord Lightning 

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Bloomdido

Vladimir Dubyshkin - Lady of the Night 

Chopin - Mazurka 

Erik Satie - Gnossienne 

Brutalismus 3000 - Pentagramm 

Ariel Pink - Not enough violence 

DIIV - Under the sun 

Aleide - 123

Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks 

Amnesia Scanner - AS Too Wrong 

Arigto & Nicolas Savva - Fragile Resistence of of Falling silent 

Bauhaus - Bella Lugosi‘s Dead

Beach House - Space Song 

Best Coast - Boyfriend 

BETWEEN FRIENDS - affection

Big Thief - Shark Smile 

binki- wiggle 

Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper 

Bonjr - it‘s ok, you‘re ok 

BRONCHO - China 

Chilly Gonzales - Lana Del Rey Medley 

CHLOBOCOP - 999 (oder Narcotics)

Dream Wife - Sports! 

The Emotions - Blind Alley

The Exploited - Sex & Violence 

The Friends of Distinction - And I Love Him

Fugazi- Waiting Room 

The Garden - Clench to Stay Awake 

Gary Numan - Trois Gymnopedies

Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa: I. Ludus

Grouper - Dragging a Deer up the hill 

The Hails - Sugar 

HYUKOH - Wanli

IDLES - I‘m scum 

Jagwar Ma - Howlin

Japanese Telecom - Cigarette Lighter 

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey 

John Maus - ... And the Rain

Julien Andreas - Lethal Hardcore 3 

Juniore - Magnifique 

La Goony Chonga - Dimension 

Lebanon Hanover - Gallow Dance 

Unaloon - Codependency 

Lime Cordiale - Screw Loose 

Low - In the Drugs 

The Marias - Only in my Dreams 

Mystique Braves - To Myself 

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - As I Sat by her side 

Papooz - Ann Wants to Dance 

The Pink Slips - Sweet Talker 

Psychic TV - The Orchids 

Ragamuffs - Used to Be

Remi Wolf - You‘re A Dog 

Rui Ho - Theia Impact 

Ryo Fukui - Early Summer 

Salami Rose Joe Louis - I Miss You So 

SALES - Chinese New Year 

Shamir - On My Own 

ShitKid - Highway 

Shuggie Oties - Aht Uh Mi Head 

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Arabian Knights 

The Sister Of Mercy - Never Land 

The Skellywags - Don‘t Preach Me 

Skeggs- Spring Has Sprung 

Slaves - The Hunter 

Still Woozy - Wolfcat 

Tigers Jaw - The Sun

Tom Hengst - Click Block 

TV Girl - Birds Don‘t Sing 

Vacations - Days 

Veruca Salt - Seether 

Yves Tumour - ALLES ICH LIEBE SEINE MUSIK 

Zola Jesus - Skin 

Swans - A little God in my hands 

13th Floor Elevator - You‘re Gonna Miss Me 

Future Beat Alliance - Hippocampus 

Aïsha Devi - Mazda 

A.A.L. - Alucinao

Pan Daijing - Disease 

Astrid Gnosis - Drop Dead 

Textasy - Deja Vu Bass (oder Touch My Level aus SoundCloud) 

Sidiki Diabaté - Choisie 

Parcels - Tied Up Right Now 

Clinic - The Equalizer 

Claire Lafutt - Mojo 

Sexy Sushi - Sex Appeal 

Clara Lucini - La grenade 

Abra - Roses 

Kris Wu - Tian Di

Cerrone - Supernature 

[imthefaceoflovesrage]

candy necklace, lana del rey / plimsoll punk, alvvays

[indiexmusic]

From one of the best albums of the year, Alvvays’ “Your Type” is probably the second greatest song to mention the Louvre I’ve heard recently (Lorde will probably hold the record for the year, sorry my Canadian babes). 

[boomingmusicscene]

Watch: Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks (Brooklyn Steel, New York NY - 10/05/2017)

[thebittersweetdistractor]

ALVVAYS  “Plimsoll Punks”

Toronto five-piece Alvvays will release their new album, “Antisocialites”, on September 8 via Polyvinyl. In recent months, they’ve shared the new songs “In Undertow”, and “Dreams Tonite” and today they’ve unveiled a third track called “Plimsoll Punks”. Listen above and pre-order the album here.

[everyneedlehasaneye]

A third track from the upcoming album from Alvvays.  Can’t wait to get my copy!

[musicalhitchhiker]

Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks

8 Eylülde Antisocialites adlı yeni albümünü yayınlamış olan dream pop grubu Alvvays’e ait Plimsoll Punks kaydını dinleyin.