Any Sloan fans wandering around in here? The new album came out this week in the US (I think Canada got it a few months ago).
It’s taking me some time to form impressions of it all due to its size (30 tracks). I’m really liking it so far though, especially I Understand (except the needless and uninteresting padding at the end), Before The End Of The Race, and especially Fading Into Obscurity, which may be my favorite Sloan track since I Can Feel It, which was (checking Wikipedia)… wow, thirteen years ago (ten years ago for me - as I got into Sloan soon after One Chord To Another came out). :eek:
Anyone else pick it up? Anyone even heard of Sloan? Will this sink as fast as my Aimee Mann threads? Stay tuned!
Sloan are awesome. I didn’t know that they had a US following at all… one of our best kept secrets. Like the Tragically Hip. I will keep my ears out for Sloan’s new stuff on my desperately horrible radio station. I only get one where I am living, but thank god for CanCon.
Sigh. I didn’t even know they had a new album out. My Sloan news has been precious little since I moved from New Brunswick.
I will be looking into it. I was just playing Lemonzinger in the car a couple of days ago, and just dug out *One Chord To Another * yesterday after work, though I haven’t popped it in yet. I’ve been feeling Sloan-y lately. My Sloan-y senses must have been tingling. You get those from being a Maritimer.
I haven’t really listened to them since Navy Blue, but I really liked their output to that point, so I ought to check this out. I’m really surprised they were never bigger here in the states, though I’m glad that the Tragically (overrated) Hip never made the border jump.
Total props for mentioning the should-be-legendary Scott Miller’s bands, An Arky. (Though he is legendary with other should be legendary pop songsters, such as the wonderful Aimee Mann.)
I love TF - I only have their Best of (called something like “Four thousand six hundred and ninety-seven seconds in the live of Teenage Fanclub” or thereabouts…).
I haven’t heard Sloan - but TF are huge, huge fans of the seminal 70’s power-pop band Big Star - one of my all-time favorites. Does Sloan have a Big Star feel, too?
From what I’ve heard, not as much but a little. My impression was that Sloan had a bit more of a Britpop thing going on, but I could be mistaken. If you want to talk about other bands of interest that could be a good discussion, but I don’t want to hijack the thread.
My other post here comes off as more dismissive than I meant it to. I should listen to the Sloan cds I have more. They’re not bad. I guess I was just saying that Teenage Fanclub is a similar band that’s more to my tastes.
I listened to the two songs linked to by Slacker (thank you very much by the way). Their stuff is pleasant - not great to my ears. Not as hooky as I like my powerpop and doesn’t have that tinge of melancholy I look for. Kinda like Grandaddy - really good, but not quite enough to push them over the edge into great…just my $.02 and the songs are certainly worth a listen and a discussion.
never made the border jump.