Nerd alert: Sloan makes rare Nashville appearance tonight
by Edd Hurt
There may be a few rock scholars reading this who appreciate the ’70s Canadian band The Wackers, who specialized in agreeably sweet and charmingly twee variations on what people call power pop. Their group harmonies and attenuated rhythm section made them a band that appealed to epicures of power pop, and they may have been the precursor to Sloan, the long-running Canadian power-pop band that hit it big with the 1996 full-length One Chord to Another, whose anniversary they celebrate on a tour that hits The High Watt tonight.
On their most recent album, 2014’s Commonwealth, Sloan made some gorgeous music — I get off on the post-Chris Bell acoustic ballad “Neither Here nor There,” on which they sing about “hypochondria of the heart.” Meanwhile, “Cleopatra” is a post-Beatles rocker that operates in the general vicinity of The New Pornographers’ work. Maybe someday they’ll cover The Wackers’ great 1971 song “Travelin’ Time” and bring it all back home.
--taken from: Nashville Scene
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