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Comprising three distinct vocalist, guitarists Patrick Pentland and Jay
Ferguson, bassist Chris Murphy plus the drummer Andrew Scott, the Alternative-Rock
Indie-Rock band Sloan formed in 1991 at the Nova Scotia College of Art
and Design in Halifax, CANADA.
The group began to cultivate a dedicated local following through their
energetic live shows and in early 1992 released an EP called "Peppermint"
on their own Murder Records label.
Not long after DGC Records signed them and by October of that same year,
the band released its major label debut, "Smeared"; the record
went gold in Canada and included the single "Underwhelmed" which
reached the #25 position on the Billboard's Modern Rock chart.
The quartet returned in mid-1994 releasing the single "Coax Me"
in advance of their sophomore effort, "Twice Removed"; although
the album became a huge hit in their native Canada, DGC refused to support
the release south of the border. "Twice Removed" was also ranked
the top Canadian album of all time in chart reader polls in 1996 and 2005.
After Sloan split with their label, the band nearly broke up during 1995,
but in June of 1996 resurfaced with their third LP, "One Chord To
Another", released on its own Murder Records in Canada and later
distributed in the rest of the world by EMI Records; the 12-song set featured
the single "The Good In Everyone".
Two years later, "Navy Blues" rose to #5 spot on the Official
Top Canadian Albums chart confirming the band as one of the leading power
Pop-Rock acts in their homeland and spawning the successful singles "Money
City Maniacs" and "She Says What She Means".
During 1999 the quartet issued the live double-CD set "4 Nights At
The Palais Royale" and shortly afterwards recorded a new studio effort
titled "Between The Bridges" which made top 20 in Canada upon
its release in September; this album included three single cuts: "Losing
California", "Friendship" and "Sensory Deprivation".
Exactly two years later, the band put out "Pretty Together";
the record, lead by the single "If It Feels Good Do It", brought
them back into the top 10 of the Canadian Albums chart.
August 2003 saw the release of the group's seventh studio effort, "Action
Pact"; prefaced by the single "The Rest Of My Life", the
album became another top 10 hit for the band.
In May 2005 Sloan delivered a 16 well-crafted tracks retrospective compilation
titled "A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005", the set contained two
previously unreleased songs including the single "All Used Up".
The band's eighth studio recording, "Never Hear The End Of It",
contained a whopping 30 songs from all four members of Sloan ranging from
50 seconds to just over five minutes in length; the CD was released in
September 2006 and included the singles "Who Taught You To Live Like
That?" and "Ill Placed Trust".
Sloan will release its new record, "Parallel Play", on June
10, 2008 through Yep Roc in the United States, the album is a continuation
of the musical concepts put forth on their 2006's 30-track, 76-minute
opus and a further exploration of the band's four-songwriter dynamic.
Sloan biography is an exclusive of 100xr.com
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