New Sloan - “I’m Not A Kid Anymore”

Veteran Canadian outfit Sloan are set to release their tenth studio full-length (discounting the Peppermint EP, including Recorded Live At A Sloan Party which was not recorded at a party, etc.) in 16 years. Prolific. That’s what happens when you have four songwriters, though, and that’s how they came upon the name for the new record: Parallel Play, as in that developmental psych term you learned while misdiagnosing yourself with every affliction in your Psych 101 book in high school. “I’m Not A Kid Anymore” comes from bassist/singer Chris Murphy, who explains the track’s title like so:
I wanted to write a song about how we’re old now and we think we have this pain in the ass job but in the scheme of things it’s pretty awesome. We work 9 to 5 but it’s the other 9 to 5 as in 9 pm to 5 am. It’s really not that [...]

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