Pretty Together by Sloan

Pretty Together, the sixth studio album from Canadian rockers Sloan, came out on Murderecords in 2001, and it turns down the sunshine. The band's love of vintage pop and rock is still all over it, but the mood is more melancholy and the upbeat numbers are fewer and farther between.

Sloan, formed in Halifax in 1991, have always shared the songwriting and the lead vocals among Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland, Jay Ferguson and Andrew Scott, and on this one even Murphy, usually the group's supplier of bouncy tunes, goes low: his single "The Other Man" is a sad, pleading song. "If It Feels Good Do It" was the other single, and both got plenty of play on Canadian radio. The album reached No. 12 on the Canadian Albums Chart and was up for Best Rock Album at the 2002 Junos.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.