Bargain-basement production and a ramshackle,seat-of-the-pants attitude do nothing to undermine the qualityof these tense, edgy pop tunes. "I Am The Cancer" ispoignant and...
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Sloan's debut album, Smeared is a bit of a mess, as the group tries to combine catchy pop melodies with punky rhythms and washes of dissonant feedback borrowed straight from...
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The Chart magazine dubbed this the "Greatest CanadianAlbum Of All Time," and that just might be the case. (Like, whoelse is going to receive that award? Loverboy? Bryan...
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A far superior effort to Sloan's scattershot debut, 1994's Twice Removed is a clever and varied collection of smart and catchy pop songs. Without the grunge-era production...
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Having weathered the demise of its most recent American label, Sloan forges on, battered but unbroken and still delivering perfect pop records; Navy Blues might just be the...
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Diversity is their strength, as few bands could pull off arena rockfests ("The Good In Everyone," "G Turns ToD") introspective fare ("Autobiography") and horn-embellished...
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Dropping from sight after Geffen cut their contract in the early '90s, Nova Scotian pop savants Sloan return--and the smell of vengeance is sweet. Sloan are, like many bands...
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Following the bungled American release of Twice Removed, it seemed unlikely that Sloan would survive, let alone record an album as wonderful as One Chord to Another. On the...
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Taking cues from Rush's All the World's a Stage and Kiss' Alive!, Sloan released its 1999 double live CD 4 Nights at the Palais Royale at the perfect time -- the band had...
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Sloan managed to tinker with its signature sound -- '60s pop meets '90s indie pop -- while pleasing its current fans and gaining new ones. The band's fifth studio album,...
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In the words of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut's Oscar-nominated theme song: Blame Canada. Sure, the country that a Simpsons episode once snidely dubbed "America's Hat"...
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One thing that no one can deny about Sloan is that they can't be ignored as a band always willing to bring out the fun and the rock & roll. They always wear the hearts of...
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The aptly titled Pretty Together may be the first Sloan album that sounds like it was made by the band as a whole, and not the four individual singer/songwriters. At first...
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