by Calum Slingerland
Ahead of heading westward through Canada on their Navy Blues anniversary tour this month, Sloan have now detailed a massive box set reissue for their fourth studio album.
Limited to 1,200 pieces, the Navy Blues deluxe vinyl box set is now available for pre-order through the band's website. The set features three LPs, a pair of 7-inch singles, a colour poster, digital downloads and a 32-page book complete with "many unseen photos, posters, artwork, ephemera, lyric sheets" and more.
As Sloan's Jay Ferguson explained in an email, the box's first LP will feature Navy Blues "in all its glory remastered from the original mixes," while the second LP contains "home demo recordings for each track on Navy Blues...some with early different arrangements and alternate lyrics."
The box set's third LP features 14 outtakes from both the album sessions and a handful of demo recordings.
"Some of these songs wound up being re-recorded in different forms further down the road in our career (some lounging around for 20 years!) and some never went any further than here," Ferguson added. "The Outtakes LP almost makes for an alternate upside-down-world 1998 album that never was.
"We'd like to thank all the fans who have been supportive and encouraging of both the previous box sets and tours (not to mention the continued interest in our new recordings). So please make room on that shelf, and we hope you dig this latest deluxe box. We're looking forward to seeing you all this fall and next spring."
Sloan last released their 12 album in 2018. That same year, they treated digital-only EP Hit and Run to its first-ever physical release.
--taken from: Exclaim!
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