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SLOAN - Never Hear The End Of It
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When Sloan decided to title their latest album Never Hear the End of It, they apparently meant it literally. The Haligonian power-popsters' eighth album boasts a K-Telish 30 -- count 'em 30 -- original cuts jammed cheek-by-jowl into 76 minutes. So you can't accuse the boys of skimping on the rock. For the first time in a long time, you can't accuse them of making the same album again either....full text |
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| One trend in the 15-year-career of Canadian pop/rock group Sloan (stars in their own country, cult heroes elsewhere) has been towards excess. From around the time of their third album, 1996’s One Chord to Another, and even more evidently on their fourth album, 1998’s Navy Blues (a double-album in the vinyl version), they began treating each album like it was an epic rock n’ roll classic....full text |
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| It can be hard to justify to non-Canadians why Sloan have been around so damn long. To some, Sloan must seem simply another mirror for whatever self-aware, indie pop band lines the ‘staff picks’ shelf this week. But for those of us North of the border and now in their early to mid-twenties, Sloan can be synonymous with a time during our adolescence when the “The Good in Everyone” video was omnipresent on Canadian music TV; a time when it wasn’t unreasonable or ironic to favor a certain member’s contributions, be they Patrick Pentland’s signature rock archetypes, Jay Ferguson’s seventies gush-out homage, Andrew Scott’s noodling imagery, or Chris Murphy’s pop keystones....full text |
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