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You're listening to Sound Opinions and this week we're talking with Namdi and paying tribute

to Lowe's Mimi Parker. I'm Jim DeWergottis and I'm Greg Codd. But first we review some new music

from Always and McCuyam McRaven.

That is pharmacist from the You Always Album Blue Rev. That's always A-L-V-V-A-Y-S, a little spelling

challenge. It's not all names.

It's not everybody wants all bays but you know it's always. That's the way they pronounce it.

And it's a third studio album by this Canadian indie pop band. They have a new rhythm section

on this record. The lead singer and guitarist and keyboard player are in-tack Molly Rankin,

the vocalist in the band. She comes from a famous musical family. The Rankin family. Her dad

was a noted fiddle player with the Celtic folk family collective, the Rankin family.

And Molly also played a little fiddle along the way. But she decided she wanted to write songs

and branch out on her own eventually. She grew up in Nova Scotia writing music with her

neighbor, the keyboardist, Cary McClellan. And later met Aleco Hanley, the guitar player.

They self-financed their first record. It took them a year to find a label to put it out.

A self-titled record that eventually emerged in 2015. And they had a huge breakthrough hit Archie

Marry Me is the name of the song. Anti-socialites followed in 2017 and now we have their third

album. Drummer and bassist are new on this record, Sheridan Riley and Abby Blackwell.

And producer Sean Everett, who's done some big records for Casey Musgrave's War on Drugs Killers.

Now he's working with Always. The album is called Blue Rev from Always and the track is called

Pomeranian Spinster. I don't know what it is.

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