Alvvays’ Antisocialites was a definite 2017 highlight, and now they’ve followed it up with a batch of new tunes, although the songs have been kept on the super down low.
Three new songs — “Pecking Order,” “Supine Equine,” and “Echolalia” — popped up on Reddit yesterday, and commenters suggested that the songs appeared on an exclusive cassette release. Indeed, Discogs has an entry for an Alvvays tape with the same three songs on it, which says the tape was sold on the band’s merch desk during their February UK tour.
The band’s Alec O’Hanley previously discussed the existence of these songs, and compared “Pecking Order” to R.E.M.:
“We had three or four b-sides that we mixed and mastered. They came out in various tertiary market releases. There’s a song called ‘Pecking Order’ that was on a Japanese release. Kind of a jangly ode to R.E.M. or something equivalent. There are other cans that we kick farther down the road if we don’t get documentation correct, then we’re apt just file it away and revisit it at a later time.”
As for the other two songs, Supine is a short dreamy and rhythmic track that focuses more heavily on the instrumental than the vocals, while “Echolalia” is an even short song, clocking in at barely over a minute long. Listen to “Pecking Order,” “Supine Equine,” and “Echolalia” above and below.
