Tracklist:
1. Believe In Me
2. Cheap Champagne
3. All I Am Is All You're Not
4. Emergency 911
5. Burn For It
6. Witch's Wand
7. The Dogs
8. Living The Dream
9. The Other Side
10. Down In The Basement
11. If I Could Change Your Mind
12. I'm Not A Kid Anymore
13. Too Many
Genre: Pop/Rock/Indie
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Release Date: 2008-06-10
Label: Yep Roc
"Having taken their Beatles fixations to a logical extreme, they find a parallel play in Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit, co-opting glammier beats to service their fussy, handcrafted pop-rock without succumbing to a loosey goosey sexuality that would be a poor fit. Even those accustomed to Sloan's effortlessness will find the first half of Parallel Play almost flawless. There's still little in the way of artifice or innovation, but it's still easy to admire the architecture-- while the hammering shuffle of "Believe in Me" builds to an ecstatic, positive chorus, it careens right into "Cheap Champagne", which reverses course by downplaying the clever minor progression in hooks in favor of the "ba ba's" that start it off. But beyond those two, Sloan never feel the need to come on too strong, as "All I Am Is All You're Not" gets its hands muddy before striking oil on the hook and "Witch's Wand" disguises its subtly dark lyrics about female mind control (or possibly heroin, but I doubt it) behind the head-bopping melodies."
Website: Myspace |
Release Date: 2008-06-10
Label: Yep Roc
"Having taken their Beatles fixations to a logical extreme, they find a parallel play in Belle & Sebastian's The Life Pursuit, co-opting glammier beats to service their fussy, handcrafted pop-rock without succumbing to a loosey goosey sexuality that would be a poor fit. Even those accustomed to Sloan's effortlessness will find the first half of Parallel Play almost flawless. There's still little in the way of artifice or innovation, but it's still easy to admire the architecture-- while the hammering shuffle of "Believe in Me" builds to an ecstatic, positive chorus, it careens right into "Cheap Champagne", which reverses course by downplaying the clever minor progression in hooks in favor of the "ba ba's" that start it off. But beyond those two, Sloan never feel the need to come on too strong, as "All I Am Is All You're Not" gets its hands muddy before striking oil on the hook and "Witch's Wand" disguises its subtly dark lyrics about female mind control (or possibly heroin, but I doubt it) behind the head-bopping melodies."
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