Tegan and Sara are veterans with a fresh touch

Tegan and Sara remember the unfiltered advice Neil Young and his manager gave them when they were signed to the rock icon's Vapor Records 16 years ago as budding 19-year-old singers.

"There was a very poignant speech about 'you could go this way and you're taking a real risk if you don't have success, there's a chance a major label won't be interested in you for very long, but then there's this path and this path is harder, there's less money and you're going to struggle but it's going to give you time to develop as an artist.' And that's, quite literally, the best gift you can be given as a young artist - time to develop," Tegan, now 35, recalls in a recent interview with her sister.

"We really in a huge way owe our incredibly long career to Neil Young and his manager, Elliot Roberts, because they afforded us that time."