Sloan Free Song Off Forthcoming EP Now Available

Sloan have made a new song called "Take It Upon Yourself" available as a free download from their website.

The song, which brings to mind material from their One Chord To Another album, is free when you sign up for the band's mailing list. The tune will be part of a five-song EP which will be digitally released later this fall. It will be the follow-up to last year's Parallel Play.

"We are in the final stages of mixing the rest of the songs," manager Mike Nelson told CHARTattack in an email message today. "There are six songs in total, five of which will end up on the as-yet-untitled EP. It will feature song contributions from each band member."

The digital format might be the first in a series of forthcoming releases. Although nothing has been announced, a recent interview singer/guitarist Jay Ferguson did with Blare Magazine hints that future physical CD releases might be a thing of the past for the band.

"I don't want to make CDs anymore," Ferguson said. "I don't want to manufacture CDs, it's pointless.

"I don't mind making vinyl and I don't mind putting music up online, but manufacturing and distributing CDs is just a headache to be honest. I know it still exists and you still have to sort of cater to it, but I kinda want to turn that off soon. This EP will be the first foray into that."

A post on the band's website also says the group will tour this fall and winter with Canadian and American dates to be announced soon.

Sloan will play a date as part of Rocktoberfest in Kitchener on Oct. 11 and another in Detroit on Nov. 28 as part of Winter Icebreaker with Sam Roberts and The Hard Lessons.