Tegan and Sara

[Norah]

Yeah Boyfriend is fucking awful. I'll have to give U-Turn a try.

[Mike]

lol, I saw the track review for this on Pitchfork called ""Boyfriend" Is Tegan and Sara's Best Song Yet" and wondered if that might possibly true. Then I listened to it.

[run2death]

Really want to go to one of their anniversary shows for The Con, but I'm already doing two California road trips for multiple shows for Mogwai and Camp Cope and just can't justify another one. Hoping they'll add an AZ show.

[run2death]

They are in the studio now. Hopefully they abandon the "pop" sound and go back to an "indie" vibe.

Heartthrob was great, but Love You to Death was pretty terrible.

[run2death]

New album 9/27.

Last year while writing our new memoir, we came across two cassette tapes with dozens of songs we wrote in high school. Defiant and melodramatic, the songs captured the exultation and grief of first loves, first losses, ecstatic kiss-offs, and psychedelic tributes to the friendships we had as teenagers. It had been over twenty years since we had heard the songs and quite honestly, we both expected to listen once, cringe, and bury them for another couple decades. But they were good. Like, really good. They were raw, and in some cases the lyrics were hard to decipher. But the melodies, the honesty in the words, and the joy listening to them after all these years was undeniable. We decided immediately that those songs were the demos we’d use to build the new Tegan and Sara record. Hey, I’m Just Like You has twelve songs, but in making those twelve songs we pulled sections from nearly twenty of those lost high school demos. We kept the original lyrics where we could, and we only wrote four new sections. In some cases, Sara sings songs I wrote, and in other cases I sing songs she wrote. For the first time ever, we share vocal duties on a handful of songs making them the first truly “Tegan AND Sara” songs. Alex Hope produced the record in Vancouver, where we recorded this past April and May. It is also the FIRST Tegan and Sara album produced, performed, engineered, mixed, and mastered by a team of all women.

Produced by Alex Hope
Engineered by Rachael Findlen
Mixed by Beatriz Artola
Mastered by Emily Lazar
Assistant engineering by Annie Kennedy

Tegan Quin: Vocals, guitar
Sara Quin: Vocals, guitar, glockenspiel
Alex Hope: Guitar, keyboards, piano, synths, programming, backing vocals
Carla Azar: Drums
Catherine Hiltz: Bass

[run2death]

New song is pretty good.

The whole "We found a box of old songs that we decided to record" thing is a great excuse to switch back to their old (pre-Heartthrob) sound.

[epilogue]

But where does the good go?

[run2death]

New album isn't very good.

Songs aren't great and the overproduced bullshit needs to stop.

I'm gonna stop paying attention to them now.

[epilogue]

New album isn't very good.

Songs aren't great and the overproduced bullshit needs to stop.

I'm gonna stop paying attention to them now.

[Jorge]

New song is pretty

[Teeeeeekay]

They have to be non-binary by now right?

[Jorge]

What

[Teeeeeekay]

What

Tegan and Sara have to be non-binary by now.

[Jorge]

Wanna expand on that a bit?

[Teeeeeekay]

Not really, it was bad joke. They’re lesbians, they haven’t that relevant in years, like the pro noun crap hasn’t either, so it was just a joke to show that time had lapsed. I love The Con btw. I actually need to grab that LP.

[Jorge]

Oh

[Jorge]

Very cool

[spike]

are they related?

[Jorge]

They're a couple

[spike]

and swingers