Sir Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective novels are to be reimagined for Nordic streamer Viaplay, the group’s debut UK drama commission and the first Rebus TV adaptation for nearly 15 years.
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EJ Panaligan editor With their first new album in five years and a long tour now underway, the members of Canadian dreampop outfit Alvvays are living the rock and roll dream. “We’re excited to be in a tin can for the next six weeks together, because that’s how healthy relationships function,” laughs singer Molly Rankin over Zoom from Toronto shortly before the band embarked on their U.S. tour, which began last Friday in Chicago. Prior to that, the group had just returned from a small run of release-week shows in the U.K. in support of their third album “Blue Rev,” which dropped on October 7th on Polyvinyl, and are now underway on their U.S. run which will conclude on November 18th in Boston. “There are many suitcases rolling around,” Rankin noted. “Lots of hasty cuts are being made about what to take and what not to take for the next six weeks.”
But after a five-year gap between the new album and 2017’s critically lauded “Antisocialites,” what’s six weeks? The delay was largely caused by circumstances out of the group’s control: along with the pandemic, during the songwriting process, a thief broke into Rankin’s apartment and stole a recorder full of demos, then a subsequent basement flood damaged much of the band’s gear. But Rankin and Alvvays guitarist/co-writer Alec O’Hanley spent lockdown working through the new songs — which balance the band’s glistening, nostalgia-drenched undertones with an abrasive, roaring edge. “We spent a lot of time with our keyboardist Kerri [MacLellan] – she’s my childhood best pal – and when we were allowed to be in the same room together, we would just play over demos for like three nights a week,” she said. “That’s probably the common thread I think about when working on all the songs
Sir Ian Rankin’s Rebus detective novels are to be reimagined for Nordic streamer Viaplay, the group’s debut UK drama commission and the first Rebus TV adaptation for nearly 15 years.
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