Sloan - Chris Murphy and drummer Andrew Scott - perform at Toronto’s Mod Club Tuesday night. (Jack Boland, QMI Agency)

TORONTO - Over two decades, there has been very little drama, infighting or backstabbing in Halifax-cum-Toronto rock band Sloan.

And the result has been four guys making 10 studio albums over 20 years, a series of numbers celebrated on Tuesday night at a tightly-packed Mod Club.

Touring behind their latest The Double Cross – an album nominated for the Polaris Music Prize later this year – Sloan tore through about two dozen finely-tuned songs over 90 minutes as only four horsemen of the a-pop-calypse could.

And by pop I mean infectious guitar-driven melodies and tight Fab Four-like harmonies, not wardrobe malfunctions or costume changes.

Opening with the first three songs off the new album, bassist Chris Murphy, guitarists Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland each had a crack singing lead. Murphy's up-tempo Follow The Leader was only upstaged by the near flawless Unkind Pentland seized control of.

Oh, and one can't forget drummer Andrew Scott, whose rolls and fills kept things humming along before trading places with Murphy for his own mid-set mini-set. Scott's material seemed a tad more adventurous and moody, especially Something's Wrong and the spacey Sinking Ships.

Regardless, Sloan knack for catchy melodies and hummable numbers would make most acts envious. Singles such as The Good In Everyone, If It Feels Good Do It, The Rest Of My Life and Believe In Me weren't played yet didn't lessen the set list at all.

What was played represented a fine journey through their catalog, be it on the head-bobbing Snowsuit Sound from their Twice Removed album or the ramshackle It's Plain To See which conjured up an early Beatles romp. The Pentland-led highlight had to be Everything You've Done Wrong that had all drowning him out.

But as one would expect from the four – well five including touring keyboardist Gregory Macdonald – nobody really seemed to steal the show. Coax Me cajoled many in the audience as Murphy hit the high notes on tiptoes. Murphy also asked how many in the crowd was seeing the group for the first time. When several dozen hands went in the air, Murphy jokingly instructed those newbies to head to the back.

Songs from The Double Cross had their moments, particularly the punk-ish It's Plain To See and the snappy Shadow Of Love. However She's Slowing Down Again and Your Daddy Will Know didn't quite have the same effect.

Thanking the crowd again for sticking with them for 20 years, Sloan concluded the main portion with Losing California. Following chants of "Slooo-aaann," the group's encore had Ferguson drowned out by fans on The Lines You Amend before the ballad The Other Man. Sirens and red lights illuminated the club during a fleshed out Money City Maniacs.

Here's hoping a triple cross isn't entirely out of the question.

SETLIST:

Follow The Leader

The Answer Was You

Unkind

The Marquee And The Moon

Snowsuit Sound

Worried Now

Shadow Of Love

Everything You've Done Wrong

Who Taught You To Live Like That

Gimme That

She's Slowing Down Again

Something's Wrong

Traces

Sinking Ships

It's Plain To See

Your Daddy Will Do

Don't You Believe A Word

I've Gotta Know

Coax Me

Beverly Terrace

Losing California

The Lines You Amend

The Other Man

Money City Maniacs