Alvvays, Spllit

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Norman Wong

The band Alvvays pause for a photo.

Alvvays

It is the dual attack of the needlessly doubled letter bands. Alvvays (pronounced “always”) is perhaps the best known thing to come out of Prince Edward Island since Anne of Green Gables. Strummy, minor key indie folk-rock is capped with Molly Rankin’s soaring vocals. Spllit, from New Orleans, has a more experimental, electronic edge, but twanging electric guitars burst out of the mix often enough to keep things mostly melodic. The band’s self-description as “a galaxy of textured sonic synapses, totally wired and deeply imaginative” is right on.