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| Allmusic |
 At 13 songs and 37 minutes, Parallel Play feels as if it were designed as a counterpoint to its 2006 predecessor, Never Hear the End of It, an efficient machine next to the sprawling canvas of that hourlong 30-song neo-masterpiece. That it is, but Parallel Play isn't quite an abandonment of the White Album aesthetics of Never Hear, where all four members of Sloan played off their individual personalities to create a larger tapestry. Rather, Parallel Play condenses all that winding exploration into a tight, colorful blast of sound and song -- and one that is seamlessly sequenced just like its big brawny cousin....full text |
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| Courant |
Barely a year removed from its sprawling, if aptly titled, 76-minute opus "Never Hear the End of It," Canadian power-pop legend Sloan is back with "Parallel Play," a record that shares all of its predecessor's playful strengths — at half the running time.
With songwriting and vocalist duties split equally between Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott, Sloan's albums have always been an embarrassment of pop riches, varied yet cohesive, and undeniably Sloan....full text |
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| Pitchforkmedia |
| Sloan never really fell off, but they've often been taken for granted. You know how it goes with American critics-- make a bunch of classicist pop comparisons, wonder why they aren't as big in the U.S. as they are in Canada, slap three stars on it, move on to something with more cachet and see you in two years. Which leads me to believe that the surprisingly muted reception of 2006's Never Hear the End of It was the result of no one really knowing what to do with it. Clocking in at 30-tracks with a suite-like flow (more like an avalanche), the record didn't reprogram the parameters of Sloan's sound so much as their scope-- this sort of ambition played completely against type, and were it the work of a younger band, there's a good chance, well, you'd never hear the end of it....full text |
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