Formed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1991, Sloan released their debut album, Smeared, on Geffen in 1992. The fuzzy, shoegaze-heavy LP featured the clever breakout college radio hit Underwhelmed.
The group shifted to a clean, melodic guitar-pop sound on Twice Removed (1994), flawlessly melding Beatles-esque pop melodies with heavy alternative-rock guitar riffs.
The album was infamously rejected by their US label DGC for not sounding like grunge. Fans routinely vote it the greatest Canadian album of all time
Recorded on a shoestring budget after a brief hiatus, One Chord to Another (1996) is a power pop masterpiece which won a Juno Award and cemented the band’s legacy as a Canadian national treasure.
Navy Blues (1998) was a riff-heavy tribute to ’70s rock, featuring their most recognisable arena anthem, Money City Maniacs.
The cleverly named Never Hear the End of It (2006) was an ambitious, highly praised 30-track album in which all the songs seamlessly segue into one another, while Commonwealth (2014) was a double album structured so that each of the four members got an entire vinyl side to showcase their own solo suite of songs.
Chris Murphy
Vocals, bass, drums Patrick Pentland
Vocals, guitar Jay Ferguson
Vocals, guitar, bass Andrew Scott
Vocals, drums, guitar
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The group shifted to a clean, melodic guitar-pop sound on Twice Removed (1994), flawlessly melding Beatles-esque pop melodies with heavy alternative-rock guitar riffs.
