One other thought about Sloan's newest before I stop liveblogging my fawning initial reaction to it, because I think it'll make all of us sick:
30 songs? My thinking was that, after their uninspired output of the last 5 years, the band got together and said, "OK. This is it. We've sleepwalked through the last two albums, so we're wrapping it up after this. If you have any songs you want to go onto a Sloan album, now's the time." And after hearing the first 7 songs of this album, I hope to God I'm wrong - and if it is their swan song, then they couldn't have done better. This is great.
I haven't been this positively thrilled with an album in years, B&S' Dear Catastrophe Waitress excepted (and that took about three listens for me to get into). I feel my eyes starting to glisten, almost reminiscent of my first listen to Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump, but in a different way.
"Fading Into Obscurity" is pure pop-rock goodness, by the way. "Right or Wrong" made chills jump up on my arms. Why these guys never broke big is, pardon the pun, so beyond me.
I'd better stop before I run out of superlatives.
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Jason had exactly the same theory about NHTEOI, and voiced it it in practically the same words. Weird.
ReplyDeleteI just finally got the pun of the title, too...you know, it's so long, you'll never hear...har har.
Glad you got the music.
This weekend I'm building a fucking rabbit cage.