Canadian power pop outfit Sloan has been at it since their shoegazing infancy back in the early 1990's. They eventually morphed into a band with chameleon qualities who could change from a Beatlesque melody maker to a 70's arena rock force simply by skipping to the next track. Their tenth studio LP The Double Cross will be available May 10 on Outside Records. A new track from the new album has hit the internets recently and it fills the gap nicely since their 2008 album Parallel Play. "Follow The Leader" feeds early on the glam-rock staples of a stomping drumbeat and freeform bass, adding some hard strumming acoustic guitar that gives way to a dramatic bridge that screams of an old school AM radio nugget. Toward the end, the mood shifts to a groovy piano packed shakedown and finishes abruptly not unlike the tracks from their rock opera double LP Never Hear The End Of It. It will be interesting to see what the rest of the new album delivers.
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Follow The Leader
Bonus discovery: All of Sloan's albums are available for purchase or for full song streaming via their website. I am posting their 2005 singles comp A Sides Win as a decent cross section of their best stuff. Rock on!
