Sloan Treacy's "Common Knowledge" captures the feeling of being betrayed by someone who ought to be on your side, and of others seeming to have known it was coming. Just because it's like shutting the door after someone has already walked through it, and you feel disappointment, disbelief, and revelation. The track is the lead single off Sloan's forthcoming album, "Aftermath."
"Common Knowledge" makes you wonder whether this might be the beginning of a kind of reckoning, and, in so doing, it makes you thoughtful. The song was produced by Don Miggs, and mixed by Mark Needham. Sloan sings each line with emotional truth, and she gets real, turning fear into power. Someone looks back in hindsight, knowing the signs were there, but resolves to move forward with a bit more perspective.
The instruments guide you through your introspective journey, with steady percussion, melodic guitar lines, and increasing energy that illustrate how you gain knowledge over time. The deep cut of "Common Knowledge" flows from how widely known it is. Many will recognise that crack in the trust, broken by silence. Sloan Treacy conveys that feeling with astonishing emotional clarity in a song that heals and roots. "Common Knowledge," the lead-off to "Aftermath," defined not only an album of authenticity, strength, and courage in confronting what has been hidden for so long. Sloan is at her most self-aware and adorable.
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