Sloan - "Year Zero" | Stiegl Hidden Studio Sessions

Sloan performs "Year Zero", an Andrew Scott penned song from their 2018 album, 12.

Canadian rock veterans Sloan released a new addition to their impressive and prolific discography this week with their twelfth studio album, 12. Since sparking the Canadian East Coast alternative scene of the early 90s, the band has spent the last quarter century amassing an incredible body of work, managing to stay together, to stay relevant, and making a case for Sloan to be considered one of Canada's all-time greatest rock bands.

One of Canada's longest-running and most prized bands, Sloan continues their democratic songwriting tradition on this record with three songs penned by each of the four core members of the band: Patrick Pentland with the soaring rock anthems, Chris Murphy with the playful, participatory sing-alongs, Jay Ferguson with the jaunty prog-pop gems, and Andrew Scott with the whimsical innerspace explorations. But rather than isolating themselves to work on their own tunes as they did on their last album, Commonwealth, this time they all collaborated on each other's work.

Sloan paid us a visit in the Stiegl Hidden Studio to perform four songs from 12, with each member taking a turn on lead.