New RecordUPC: 680889102172Colour Vinyl: Hot PinkThere are certainly enough noteworthy events and experiences peppered through the 30-year history of Canadian indie rock heroes Sloan to make for a good yarn.From the band’s earliest home studio recordings that married their pop smarts with fizzy, fuzzed out guitars that sat somewhere to the left of the shoegaze and grunge movements of the day, to the chaotic yet charismatic energy they brought to the earliest live shows in their home town of Halifax, Nova Scotia, the quartet – bassist and vocalist Chris Murphy, guitarists/vocalists Jay Ferguson and Patrick Pentland, and drummer/vocalist Andrew Scott – possessed a rare chemistry from the start. With the release of their debut album, Smeared, in 1992 (on label du jour DGC, home to Nirvana and Teenage Fanclub among others), the band set off on a trajectory that would, even in the band’s first few years, provide its share of challenges (label indifference to the follow-up album, 1994’s Twice Removed, which would lead to a temporary break-up of the band) and triumphs (the recording of what was intended to be a swan song in 1995’s One Chord to Another on their own label, murderecords, which turned into their biggest seller to date).
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