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Sloan
Never Hear the End of It
(Red Ink/Sony BMG)
When Sloan decided to title their latest album Never Hear the End of It, they apparently meant it literally.
The Haligonian power-popsters' eighth album boasts a K-Telish 30 -- count 'em 30 -- original cuts jammed cheek-by-jowl into 76 minutes. So you can't accuse the boys of skimping on the rock. For the first time in a long time, you can't accuse them of making the same album again either.
After a string of soundalike releases, Never Hear the End of It -- mainly produced by the band themselves in their rehearsal hall -- seems like something of a long-overdue stylistic and sonic breakthrough.
Yes, their sound is still firmly rooted in the crunchy, well-produced Beatlepop that has long been their trademark. But many of these tunes are shorter, simpler, leaner and cleaner -- several sprint by in under a minute -- giving the band some much-needed vibrancy, variety and vitality.
So despite its imposing length, this disc still manages to be Sloan's least forced and most exciting album in years.
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If this is their new approach, we don't want to hear the end of it.
Track Listing:
1. Flying High Again
2. Who Taught You To Live Like That?
3. I've Gotta Try
4. Everybody Wants You
5. Listen To The Radio
6. Fading Into Obscurity
7. I Can't Sleep
8. Someone That I Can Be True With
9. Right Or Wrong
10. Something's Wrong
11. Ana Lucia
12. Before The End Of The Race
13. Blackout
14. I Understand
15. You Know What It's About
16. Golden Eyes
17. Can't You Figure It Out?
18. Set In Motion
19. Love Is All Around
20. Will I Belong?
21. Ill Placed Trust
22. Live The Life You're Dreaming Of
23. Living With The Masses
24. HFXNSHC
25. People Think They Know Me
26. I Know You
27. Last Time In Love
28. It's Not The End Of The World
29. Light Years
30. Another Way I Could Do It