“This is controversial, but I’m not that passionate about music these days. “They’ve resonated most because it’s clear how vulnerable and raw and committed and focused we were, making those records,” Tegan says. “Neither of us was feeling very excited or inspired.” She needed something big to happen - something that “wasn’t a death or a breakup” - so that their new record could come from a similar place that fan favorites like The Con (2007) and So Jealous (2004) did. “We’d been reluctant to make a new record,” Tegan admits of the period after Love You To Death, explaining that she’d tried writing, to no avail. Tegan and Sara Announce 'Hey, I'm Just Like You' North American Tour: See the Dates “Every band says it,” Tegan acknowledges, “but I just think it is a really good record, because it’s songs that haven’t been fucked with, and that we wrote pure, but with all of this skill and what works for us.” Besides, the duo has spent 20 years and eight records experimenting - who’s to say that there even is a trademark “Tegan and Sara sound” to throw back to? There are elements of other “eras” on the album - a LY2D synth here, a So Jealous riff there - but it’s sewn together in a way that feels like Tegan and Sara. So sure, you can call HIJLY a return to their roots.īut even that is kind of an unfair summation of the project.
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Heartthrob was one of the smartest pop albums of 2013 and earned them their first Billboard Hot 100 entry in “Closer,” and 2016’s Love You To Death drew strong acclaim and saw them tour with wireless mics for the first time, hinting at an imminent conversion to full pop stardom. HIJLY’s guitar-driven sound, while reminiscent of their early albums, is, still, a departure from their previous two records. These two projects are being released in the span of a week, which is the sort of overachieving we’ve come to expect from the sisters Quin. It’s a stirring dual account of drug use, early sexual experiences and ‘90s rave culture, their coming-of-age (and coming out) stories.
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They’re also taking a crack at memoir-writing in the form of High School, which documents not their music career, but the days just before it was about to kick out in earnest.
Indeed, Tegan and Sara, formerly known as Sara and Tegan, formerly known as Plunk, are about to release an album of material that they originally wrote in the ’90s, allowing much of it to see the light of the day for the first time.
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