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Last weekend was Riot Fest and boy, I am so tired. However, the end of the three-day-event also marked the end of Chicago’s major music festival season, allowing music fans and music journalists to get ready to hibernate until next year. While we already recapped the weekend, detailing our bests and worsts
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, we missed some of the bands performing—solely because it’s impossible to cover more than a small fraction of the huge lineup.One act we might have covered but didn’t was Alvvays. I first heard the Nova Scotia, Canada, dream-pop outfit after catching its early single “Archie, Marry Me” while scouring mp3 blogs in 2013. There’s something timeless about this track: likable pop wrapped in a jangly, indie rock package that feels like something Teenage Fanclub or My Bloody Valentine would make but with the lovelorn innocence of the Beatles. As singer Molly Rankin croons lines like, “So honey take me by the hand and we can sign some papers/Forget the invitations floral arrangements and bread makers/Hey, hey, marry me, Archie,” you realize there aren’t too many indie rock love songs about settling down.
The song, which you can stream below, appeared on the band’s excellent self-titled 2014 debut and was a highlight of its early Sunday afternoon Riot Fest set.
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