At the 2017 FYF music festival, I had the pleasure of seeing the Canadian indie band Alvvays live. I also had the misfortune of being an inattentive witness, more keen on photo ops for lead singer Molly Rankin’s lavender American Apparel skirt than her girlish wailing and songwriting capability. The band has a primarily consistent and enjoyable discography; their self-titled debut album produced some of their most revered tracks, from the teenage fantasy love ballad “Archie, Marry Me” to the humorously creepy and equally as jangly “Adult Diversion.”..
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Kit Martin, based in both London and France, and Merve Erdem, based in London, make up the two halves of Kit Sebastian. The group was formed in 2018, with their debut album Mantra Moderne being released the following year. I had first caught a whiff of Mantra Moderne in 2020, date unknown, for all the inferable reasons.
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