Northern Wish

9. Sloan - Between The Bridges
Sloan have released many great albums, three of which made the top 100 in Bob Mersereau’s book. Twice Removed at number 14, One Chord To Another at number 34 and Smeared at number 86. Honestly I don’t really get it either. Twice Removed I understand but the other two don’t really cut if for me. One Chord has some good songs in Everything You’ve Done Wrong, Lines You Amend, Good In Everyone and Smeared is OK. But neither of them hold a candle to this one. This album for me is kind of like Music At Work. It is an album of great songs which only fans really know. It is a 70s throwback album which plays like a concept album, with one song running into the next throughout most of the album. There is not a bad song on this album. It is stylistically varied from the mellowness of The N.S and A Long Time Coming to the rock of Losing California and Friendship. There is also a lot o piano on this album which takes it up a notch and might be why I like it so much. Then there is A Long Time Coming which may be the best song they have ever done. Then there is The Marquee And The Moon which may be the best song they have ever done. Then there is Delivering Maybes which may be the best song they have ever done. You get the picture.

Anyway I can’t say enough good things about this album. If you like Sloan but don’t know this one, go get it, you will not be disappointed. If you don’t know Sloan’s music very well then start here as it is, along with Twice Removed, the band at the top of their game.

 Here is the video for Losing California

And here is a rare live performance of The Marquee And The Moon

Between The Bridges did not chart in Bob Mersereau’s book The Top 100 Canadian Albums…but it should have.