<p><a rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvvays">Molly Rankin</a> (b. 1987) sings, plays guitar, and writes songs in the terrific Canadian indie rock band <a rel="ugc" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/04/arts/music/alvvays-blue-rev.html">Alvvays</a> (pronounced "always"). </p><p>She comes from a noted Canadian music family. <a rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rankin_Family">The Rankin Family</a> has been performing Celtic Cape Breton folk music together since 1989, winning a bunch of awards along the way (including six Junos, the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy). All the Rankins are from the tiny village of Mabou, Nova Scotia, on the west coast of Cape Breton. (Trivia: Cartoonist Kate Beaton is also from Mabou!) Molly's father, John Morris Rankin, was a core member of the group until he was killed in a car accident in 2000.</p><p>But instead of folk, Molly decided to go the rock route, starting Alvvays with Alec O'Hanley (late of the underrated PEI band <a rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Hours_Traffic">Two Hours Traffic</a>) in 2011. They've released three albums, each excellent: <a rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvvays_(album)"><em>Alvvays</em></a> (2013), <a rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisocialites"><em>Antisocialites</em></a> (2017), and <a rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Rev"><em>Blue Rev</em></a> (2022). That last one, the most shoegaze-y of the bunch, ended up on many end-of-year best albums lists; it ranked No. 1 on the lists of <a rel="ugc" href="https://www.stereogum.com/2206970/best-albums-2022/lists/year-in-review/2022-in-review/">Stereogum</a> and <a rel="ugc" href="https://exclaim.ca/music/article/best_albums_of_2022/page/5">Exclaim</a>, No. 3 on <a rel="ugc" href="https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-albums-2022/">Pitchfork's</a> and <a rel="ugc" href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-albums/best-albums-of-2022/#blue-rev">Paste's</a>, No. 7 on <a rel="ugc" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/arts/music/best-albums-renaissance-bad-bunny.html">The New York Times</a> list, and high on <a rel="ugc" href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-2022-list-1234632387/alvvays-blue-rev-1234633084/">Rolling Stone's</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/12/12/1134899164/50-best-albums-2022-page-2">NPR's</a>, and <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/dec/06/the-50-best-albums-of-2022">The Guardian's</a>. (<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/alvvays-blue-rev/">Pitchfork</a>: "Astonishingly great...a record that finally is large enough to contain the band’s splendor. Every song on Blue Rev is a feast, done up with effortless élan. It is a deep dive through the history of pop and rock, down into the abyss of what its future might look like.")</p><p>This embedding is based on 30 images, cooked for a total of 300 steps on base SD1.5: 16 vectors per token, a 0.004 learning rate, a batch size of 6, and 5 gradient steps.</p><p>Your ratings, especially of the five-star variety, are very much appreciated. 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