by Darryl Sterdan
All for one and one for all. It’s always been Sloan’s MO, if not its official motto. But it’s never been put into play quite like this. For their 11th album, the Toronto-based Maritimers divvy up the labour and the recording time equally, with each member helming his own multi-song suite on one side of a double-LP. Naturally, nearly everyone (parallel) plays to his individual pop-rock strengths — Jay Ferguson composes lush romantic melancholia, Chris Murphy delivers catchy hooks and bouncy beats, Patrick Pentland drops crunchy nuggets and drummer Andrew Scott plays odd man out with an ambitious, 18-minute ADD amalgam of styles and sounds. But no matter who’s in the foreground, it ends up sounding like what it is: Another excellent Sloan album that showcases the good in everyone.
--taken from: Toronto Sun
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