Sloan - Commonwealth
Indie Rock, Powerpop | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 58:22 min | 143 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Yep Roc Records | Tracks: 15 | Rls.date: 09-09-2014
One of the great rock clichés is that the Beatles' White Album is four solo albums in one double-LP. Leave it to Sloan, the great, progressive Canadian power pop band, to find a way to one-up the Beatles. Commonwealth, their 11th studio album (which perhaps coincidentally borrows a title from an old Beatles outtake), is divided into four distinct sides, each written and recorded by an individual bandmember. Conceptually, it's clever — its wit is further telegraphed in how each side corresponds to a different king in a deck of playing cards — but its construction offers opportunities for an outright mess, something Sloan skillfully avoid, likely due to their shared love of classic rock, pop, psychedelia, and glam.