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A far superior effort to Sloan's scattershot debut, 1994's Twice Removed is a clever and varied collection of smart and catchy pop songs. Without the grunge-era production that smothered some of the best songs on Smeared, the sparkling wit of the lyrics and catchy directness of the melodies shine through. All four members write and sing, which accounts for the variation between songs like the punkish opener, "Penpals," and the chiming guitars and "ba-ba-ba" chorus of the sublime "People of the Sky," the highest of the album's high points. Other goodies include the puckish media slam "I Hate My Generation" and the dreamy, largely acoustic closer, "I Can Feel It," with its harmonies by Jale's Jennifer Pierce. Not everything works quite so well -- the seven-minute "Before I Do" is at least two and a half minutes too long -- but Twice Removed was the first indication that Sloan was more than Canada's answer to the Lemonheads. ~ Stewart Mason
Recorded at Waterfront Studio, Hoboken, New Jersey and Axis Studio, New York, New York.
Sloan: Chris Murphy (vocals, bass guitar); Jay Ferguson (vocals); Andrew Scott , Patrick Pentland.
Personnel: Andrew Scott (vocals, guitar, piano, drums); Patrick Pentland (vocals, guitar, piano, background vocals); Jennifer Pierce (vocals, background vocals); Jay Ferguson (guitar, percussion); Jim Rondinelli (percussion).
Audio Mixers: Jim Rondinelli; Sloan.
Recording information: Axis Studio Manhattan, NY; Axis Studio, New York, NY; Waterfront Studio, Hoboken, NJ.
Photographers: Chris Murphy ; Michael Halsband; Catherine Stockhausen.
Sloan: Jay Ferguson (vocals, guitar, percussion); Patrick Pentland (guitar, piano, background vocals); Andrew Scott (guitar, piano, drums, background vocals); Chris Murphy (guitar, bass, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Jennifer Pierce.
Additional personnel: Jim Rondinelli (percussion); Jennifer Pierce (background vocals).
Twice Removed Music | List Price | $15.98 (You save $2.69) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Alternative | | Label | Koch | | Orig Year | 1994 | | All Time Sales Rank |  140184  | | CD Universe Part number | 6884815 | | Catalog number | 5733 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 09, 2005 | | Studio/Live | Studio | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Jim Rondinelli; Sloan; Jim Rondinelli; Sloan | | Engineer | Jim Rondinelli; Jim Rondinelli | | Personnel | Jay Ferguson - vocals
Chris Murphy - vocals, bass guitar
Andrew Scott - vocals, guitar, piano, drums
Patrick Pentland - vocals, guitar, piano, background vocals
Also: Jennifer Pierce, Jim Rondinelli |
Sloan Twice Removed Songs Twice Removed Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  The Beatles mate with Throwing Muses?
First, my credentials: a hard rock lover. So why this review of a power pop album? Because despite the 1960’s sound they craftily update and refine, despite the fine vocal harmonies that rival pop-super-deities like ABBA (although in a masculine way, of course), and despite their artful use of sparkly piano, Sloan ROCK. (Besides, lighter rock like this is better to wake to than my favorite bands, Garbage and the Donnas, who, despite all their magnificence, taste better when served in my Walkman after the coffee has had its chance to erode my usual morning stupor.) Sloan’s chunky delivery of power pop is not unlike that of Throwing Muses (another of my faves), although it’s certainly less indie and more mainstream. This album might be what you’d get if the Monkees and Beatles reincarnated through some 22nd Century DNA manipulation, then listened to The Muses’ LIMBO and Real Ramona for three months straight, and then took over a studio to combine it all into an experimental throwback stew. Twice Removed rocks reasonably well from the get go, but its best tunes are ‘People of the Sky’ (a gem), ‘Loosens’ (a slower, moodier piano-gem), ‘Snowsuit Sound’ (the album’s best guitar cruncher), ‘I Hate My Generation’ (sadly amusing), ‘Worried Now’, and ‘Shame Shame’. ‘Penpals’ is decent too, but these lads seem to prefer to open their CD’s with tunes that are slightly less arresting than the songs that follow and ‘Penpals’ is no exception to this tendency. ‘Deeper Than Beauty’ and ‘I Can Feel It’ are simply too saccharine to please me—they grate on my rocker’s ears. Still, there’s plenty of excellence here. To me, four stars means ‘worth owning’, and this fine record is certainly that.
Submitted by Nicholas (Port Townsend, WA) 
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