★★★★★
In July 2010, Canadian pop-rock band Sloan announced via their Twitter feed that they would be marking their twenty years as a collective with the release of their tenth LP, The Double Cross (XX in Roman numerals)...
- www.noripcord.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
First things first--watch this promotion video for Sloan's cheekily-titled The Double Cross, their tenth album in twenty years: It's a fair question: how many bands are still going after two decades? And now that that's asked, a more important question, I think, is how is this band still somehow garnering our attention while so set in both their ways and their self-praise...
- www.cokemachineglow.com
2011-05-30
★★★★★
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the latest album by Canadian power-pop favorite Sloan, unless it's a problem for a band to retrace its own steps. Titled The Double Cross in honor of Sloan's 20th (or XXth) anniversary, the new record clocks in at a tight 34 minutes (like 2008's brisk Parallel Play), consists largely of short songs and fragments (like 2006's teeming Never Hear The End Of It), and lets those songs bleed together (like 1999's masterful Between The Bridges)...
- www.avclub.com
2011-05-17
★★★★★
The title of Sloan's new album is an oblique reference to the band's age. The Double Cross = XX = 20, for the 20 years they've been a band, the same four guys making records and touring together, with all the attendant peaks and valleys of notoriety that come with that. They've been one of the world's great power pop bands that whole time-- hell, they've just been a great rock band-- and that's an oddly thankless achievement...
- pitchfork.com
2011-05-17
★★★★★
Once touted as Canada's answer to American grunge bands like Nirvana or Pearl Jam, Halifax's Sloan has had a checkered career of ups and downs, hype and disappointment. Still, in their 20 years on the block - referenced in this title Double Cross - the four-piece have steadfastly maintained control over their sound, which label would put it out and how it would be promoted...
- hour.ca
2011-05-16
★★★★★
Toward the end of 2001, the with so-called garage rock revival quickly gathering steam, RCA Records briefly turned its attention to Sloan, a frustratingly undervalued band of power pop geniuses who appeared doomed to remain a cult act outside of their native Canada. RCA arranged for a proper U.S. roll-out for the band's Pretty Together album and sent them out on the road with their signature signing, a scruffy NYC act called the Strokes. This seemed like can't-miss programming at the time...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-05-16
★★★★★
It's hard to believe nearly 20 years have passed since Sloan hit the airwaves with Underwhelmed, off their debut disc Smeared, and immediately became the coolest rock band in Canada. Some highs and lows in the alt-90s, one contract-killing fake breakup and 10 studio records later, The Double Cross, a slyly titled nod to their anniversary, returns to the songwriting style not of their beloved first two records, but of the equally strong One Chord, Navy and Bridges era...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
It's hard to believe nearly 20 years have passed since Sloan hit the airwaves with Underwhelmed, off their debut disc Smeared, and immediately became the coolest rock band in Canada. Some highs and lows in the alt-90s, one contract-killing fake breakup and 10 studio records later, The Double Cross, a slyly titled nod to their anniversary, returns to the songwriting style not of their beloved first two records, but of the equally strong One Chord, Navy and Bridges era...
- nowtoronto.com
2011-05-09
★★★★★
Sloan The Double Cross (Yep Roc, 2011)
- www.crawdaddy.com
2011-05-09
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