Growing up in the very Scottish Nova Scotia on Cape Breton Island, Alvvays singer-guitarist Molly Rankin naturally gravitated to Celtic music. Her father played Celtic violin and piano in a group he started with his siblings.
He traveled and toured for much of her childhood.
“I probably got into Sonic Youth when I was 19,” she says. “In my twenties, I got into Teenage Fanclub and the Replacements. I’m still finding out about bands that were huge and cornerstones of genres I didn’t know existed. We didn’t have any cool record stores. If you wanted a CD, you had drive to Walmart. I met Alec in my early twenties. He had a local record store in his city and showed me so many different bands.
The move to Toronto, a town with a very active and competitive independent music scene, wasn’t without its hurdles. A song like “After the Earthquake” bristles and recalls Sleater-Kinney and Throwing Muses, groups that mix pop sensibilities with punk impulses.
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