Daily noise that works faster than a stream of caffeine
17 June 2025
Canadian rock legends SLOAN got together in 1991 and earned
them lots of accolades, fans and record sales, over the years.
And they’re not done yet. They have their 14th LP, named BASED
ON THE BEST SELLER ready to share with the world on 26 September.
More info here.
Jay Ferguson (guitarist): “It’s not a challenge to make a 14th album. But sometimes it’s
a challenge to think of a new overarching theme for a 14th album , and The Kinks’ 14th album was Soap Opera, essentially a TV play and complete story arc set to music, so clearly Ray Davies didn’t have that problem.
Our band has the capability to perform different styles within the rock/pop sphere, but it’s often hard to harness the group to adhere to one particular style or theme. That’s okay though. With four songwriters, we tend to make music that perhaps doesn’t always naturally hang together under one opened umbrella but that’s our style, and that style is continued on Based on the Best Seller.”
Along with the news comes the first single, a harmonic, easygoing
and guitar-hooky groover, titled LIVE FOREVER, a catchy booster.
Chris Murphy (bassist): “If given the chance to live forever, would we even want to? Careful what you wish for. Would you want to feel 80 for hundreds of years? I guess that’s the kind of hard-hitting question this song tackles. It also predicts that we will all have ‘90s nostalgia, once we’re 100 years old.”
Wake up, people
and let’s celebrate
life, we’re not cats,
we only have one.
