SLOAN – ACTION PACT
[VIK]
Sloan are so predictable now it hurts. Even their album covers have just been reworkings of the same thing since 1996. Worse still is the music. In 1998, Sloan took an artistically ill-advised venture into straight-up cock rock with Navy Blues. While it may have been a let down for many fans of their classics One Chord To Another and Twice Removed, it was a huge commercial success in Canada on the back of the single, 'Money City Maniacs'. Since then, Sloan never looked back and continued chasing the buck by repeating the formula used for Navy Blues over and over to the point of nausea.
It is truly sad for those who loved Sloan in the early 90’s to hear them now. Gone are the intelligent and charming lyrics. In their place, corny choruses like 'Gimmie That' and the God-awful 'Backstabbin' or embarrassing lines like “One thing I know about the rest of my life, I know that I’ll be living it in Canada!�. Gone too are the interesting, unconventional song structures, replaced by such boring and obvious hooks that every song on the album just sinks into one big mind-numbing melting pot.
The devolution of Sloan over the past decade has been tragic. Realizing now that there is no longer hope of the band returning to form, this former fan just wishes they’d stop.
0/5
