Sloan (band)

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Sloan
General information
Genre (s) Rock , alternative rock , power pop
founding 1991
Website www.sloanmusic.com
Current occupation
Chris Murphy
Guitar , vocals, keyboard
Patrick Pentland
guitar
 Jay Ferguson
Andrew Scott

Sloan is a Toronto-based Canadian rock band originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia .

history

The band was formed in 1991 by Chris Murphy and Andrew Scott, who met while studying at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax. A little later, Patrick Pentland and Jay Ferguson joined them, Murphy and Ferguson had previously played in a punk band called Kearney Lake Road. The band name was based on the nickname ("Slow One") of a mutual friend of the band members.

In 1992 the band released the Peppermint EP, their first release on the specially founded Murderecords label , which later also released music from other bands on the East Coast scene such as Eric's Trip and The Super Friendz. In the same year their debut album Smeared was released on Geffen Records . Since the sound of Sloan did not correspond to that of the trendy grunge bands of those years, Geffen did not do any promotion for the follow-up album Twice Removed , which the US magazine Spin named one of the "Best Albums You Didn't Hear" of 1994. Even without the support of their record company, Twice Removed was a success in Canada and, like Smeared before , eventually achieved gold status . The albums One Chord To Another and Navy Blues also went gold . Nevertheless, the band initially withdrew from the public, turned down a new offer from Geffen and instead decided to release their next album One Chord to Another on their own on Murderecords. Sloan stayed true to this principle with her next releases Navy Blues , Between the Bridges and Pretty Together . By the end of the decade, the band had also recorded two live albums, Recorded Live at a Sloan Party (1997) and 4 Nights at the Palais Royale (1999).

In 2003, the band tried to break through on the US music market with the album Action Pact , which was released by RCA Records . Therefore, the decision was made in Los Angeles to work with Tom Rothrock, who had made a name for himself as a producer of artists such as Beck and Elliott Smith . Despite a more catchy sound, however, it did not succeed in raising the public profile of Sloan in the USA sustainably. In their home country, however, the band continued to enjoy great popularity. In 2005, A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005 came out a compilation of their previous musical work, which also included two new songs with All Used Up and Try to Make It .

The band finally reported back in 2006 with the double album Never Hear the End of It , which gave the musicians their highest album position in the US charts . After Parallel Play (2008), Sloan broke new ground in 2009 with the EP Hit & Run, which is only available via the Internet, and the single Take It Upon Yourself . The compilation B-Sides Win: Extras, Bonus Tracks & B-Sides 1992–2008 was also distributed digitally via its own website. At the end of February 2011, Sloan announced a new album for May 2011 on the occasion of the band's 20th anniversary , titled The Double Cross after the Roman numeral for 20, XX . The first Canadian single from the album is Patrick Pentland's song Unkind .

Sloan is considered one of the most successful Canadian bands of the 1990s. In the course of their career, the formation has been nominated four times for the Canadian Juno Award in the Best Rock Album category (1999, 2002, 2007 and 2009). In 1997 she won the award for One Chord to Another as Best Alternative Album , after two years earlier she had received a nomination in the same category for the album Twice removed . In 1996 , just two years after its release, Twice removed was voted “Best Canadian Album of All Time” in a reader vote by the Canadian music magazine Chart . In the same poll in 2000, it was ranked 3rd behind Blue by Joni Mitchell and Harvest by Neil Young , only to be voted 1st again in 2005. In all three reader surveys, Underwhelmed from Sloan's debut album Smeared came in third in the determination of the “Best Canadian Song of All Time”.

style

Wolfgang Schäfer from Rock Hard magazine reminded the newcomer band of the "old Hüsker Dü ", but polished down to " MTV compatibility".

Discography

Studio albums

  • 1992: Peppermint EP
  • 1992: Smeared
  • 1994: Twice Removed
  • 1996: One Chord to Another
  • 1998: Navy Blues
  • 1999: Between the Bridges
  • 2001: Pretty Together
  • 2003: Action Pact
  • 2006: Never Hear the End of It
  • 2008: Parallel Play
  • 2009: Hit & Run EP
  • 2011: The Double Cross

Live albums

  • 1997: Recorded Live at a Sloan Party
  • 1999: 4 Nights at the Palais Royale

Compilations

  • 2005: A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005
  • 2010: B Sides Win: Extras, Bonus Tracks & B-Sides 1992–2008

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ To the band history
  2. ↑ Frequently asked questions Top 10
  3. ^ Sloan of the Mounties: Canada's Sloan is twice removed from the US rock scene , Metro, July 10, 1997
  4. ↑ Awards for Music Sales: CA
  5. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Sloan Biography on allmusic.com
  6. ↑ Chart Magazine in the English language Wikipedia
  7. ^ Wolfgang Schäfer: Sloan. Smeared . In: Rock Hard . No. 69 , February 1993, p. 85 .