Halifax has a strong pop culture. Sloan! Have you played the Halifax Pop Explosion?

Yeah, Halifax can be a pretty exciting place to be creating. It seems like everyone here is working on something interesting. So many buds. We have all been to Pop Explosion plenty of times. Some of us used to make the 5-hour trip up from Cape Breton for Pop X every year when we were in high school, even though we could only see a handful a shows because we were underage. Alex actually tried to sneak into the Marquee to see Sloan one year but his babyface betrayed him. We haven't played it yet, we were really just a lil toddler of a band when applications rolled around last year. We would love to do it this year. Fingers crossed!

How did you hook up with Atlanta-based label Human Sounds Records?

Josh at Human Sounds put out a tape for SWEAT, from Montreal. We were (we thought) almost done recording Steady when we came across their tape, and hoped Josh might be into our stuff. We sent him a few songs off the record and I guess he was. It actually wasn't until after we made contact that we realised Josh has actually put out tapes for Halifax bands before, which was a weird coincidence for an Atlanta label. Josh is the best, he just loves music and wants to help out people making music he likes. We came out of nowhere without much in the way of content, but he was into the few tunes he'd heard and told us he'd put out the tape. It took us a long time to finish getting it together, but he was so patient. It is truly awesome knowing that someone is gonna back you like that.