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Antisocialites

Ten songs, brighter and clearer than the debut, with synths and Dreams Tonite at the front.
Alvvays, 2017

Released
8 September 2017
Studio
Kingsize Soundlabs, Los Angeles; Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York; Union Sound Studios, Toronto
Label
Polyvinyl, Royal Mountain, Transgressive, Inertia
Producer
Alec O'Hanley, John Congleton
Length
32:36

Rankin said the record was made with a combination of Pro Tools and a TASCAM 488 8-track recorder. Pitchfork's Marc Hogan called it another batch of thoroughly accomplished songs, noting that it lacks an Archie and that the reference point is more Party Police, with mournful synths. He singled out Not My Baby as an aching, ethereal song and Plimsoll Punks as a surf-tinged single, and noted that Hey introduces a drunken alter ego named Molly Mayhem. Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake played glockenspiel and sang, and Lollipop (Ode to Jim) was named for the Jesus and Mary Chain's Jim Reid, as the Guardian later noted.

It reached 82 on the Billboard 200, 9 on the Billboard Alternative chart, 28 in the UK and 36 in Canada. Exclaim ranked it first among pop and rock albums in its 2017 year-end list, and it won the Juno for Alternative Album of the Year in 2018 and was shortlisted for the Polaris Prize.

Track listing

  1. In Undertow3:17
  2. Dreams Tonite3:16
  3. Plimsoll Punks4:50
  4. Your Type2:04
  5. Not My Baby4:16
  6. Hey2:49
  7. Lollipop (Ode to Jim)3:18
  8. Already Gone3:04
  9. Saved by a Waif2:59
  10. Forget About Life2:43

Personnel

More from Alvvays

Alvvays (2014), Blue Rev (2022)

Sources

  1. Antisocialites, Wikipedia
  2. Alvvays: Antisocialites Album Review, Pitchfork (2017-09-07)
  3. Alvvays' Molly Rankin: 'We drive people crazy with the things that we want', The Guardian (2022-10-11)