'Parallel Play' is the boiled down brother to their last album - the rambling 30 song masterpiece 'Never Hear the End of It', It is the latest studio offering from Canadian power pop royalty SLOAN. Less a conscious answer to 'NHTEOI's unabridged creative approach, 'Parallel Play' is a continuation of the musical concepts put forth on their last album and a further exploration of the band's four-songwriter dynamic. A term taken from the science of developmental psychology, parallel play is a behavior seen in young children in which they enjoy independent activities in the company of other children, something the four boys in SLOAN know a lot about. As per their unique musical modus operandi, the members of SLOAN wrote songs independently and then joined forces in the studio to produce yet another album of timeless, guitar-driven pop. For SLOAN, 'Parallel Play' proves once again that four times the songwriters equals four times the rock.