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Sloan: Parallel Play

Jan 11, 2009, 5:10pm

Catchy, guitar-heavy pop-rock with 60/70/80s influences Fifteen years into their recording career, Canada's Sloan has pulled back from the White Album length, breadth and experimentation of 2006's Never Hear the End of It to craft this tight set of thirteen guitar rock tunes. While the thirty track sprawl of Never Hear the End of It wasn't as disjointed as the Beatles' magnum opus, it offered a similar summing of parts, pulling together threads that had been woven through the bands earlier [...]

Artists: Canada

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