See also:Â I Was A FoolÂ andÂ Â Iâ€™m Not A Hero. The lead single wasÂ Closer and, not to repeat ourselves but, itâ€™s an absolute banger, a jump around and shout in your friendâ€™s face classic. It turns out that Tegan and Saraâ€™s straightforward sincerity works really well with huge stadium synths. It really worked.Â HeartthrobÂ succeeds at everything it sets out to do. Heartthrob (2013)ĪfterÂ Sainthood, Tegan and Sara Â decided to just GO FOR IT and write a big pop album. We donâ€™t have an overarching thematic point to make about them, theyâ€™re just really good indie-rock songs and sometimes (always) itâ€™s good to listen to very good indie rock played and sung by women. P>We also recommendÂ On DirectingÂ and Â Sentimental Tune. Itâ€™s a sad bop but itâ€™s a bop nonetheless, Saraâ€™s voice going down where a conventional song would rise.

It sold less than The ConÂ which seems unfair because itâ€™sÂ very, very good.Â AlligatorÂ is the poppiest thing theyâ€™d done up to that point. SainthoodÂ is, in general, a rockier album thanÂ The Con, all springy guitars and big drums. Weâ€™ve also includedÂ Burn Your Life DownÂ andÂ Dark Come Soon, two very dark songs that somehow manage to sound like warm hugs and alsoÂ Call It Off which is just so sad and lovely. This paragraph was a lot longer but really you just have to listen to it. If you take just one song from this article make it the title track.Â The ConÂ is a JEWEL. The ConÂ is widely regarded as Tegan and Saraâ€™s masterpiece which is why weâ€™ve included four songs from it here. S peak Slow fizzes, pops, twists, and turns in unexecpected directions. The arrangements are less of their time than the previous albums.Â Where Does The Good Go?Â andÂ Walking With A Ghost are unapologetically big songs. So JealousÂ is where Tegan and Sara take a huge leap forward. Do come back to them once youâ€™re a fan though, thereâ€™s good stuff on there. Tegan and Saraâ€™s first three albums,Â Under Feet Like Ours (1999), This Business Of Art (2000), and If It Was You (2002),Â are all good records but the band are still figuring themselves out stylistically so weâ€™ve only includedÂ And Darling fromÂ If It Was YouÂ to represent this early part of their career. Theyâ€™re two of the coolest people on the planet but their music is always earnest. They sing and play with total commitment.

They always give the impression that theyâ€™re giving you everything, articulating want and regret with a directness and originality that few others can match. The constant through all of this is the quality of the songwriting Tegan and Sara are great songwriters. Itâ€™s difficult to know where to jump in with any critically acclaimed band with a big discography but with Tegan and Sara itâ€™s especially daunting because, well, which Tegan and Sara do you want? Over eight albums and eighteen years, their music has evolved from alt-folk to pop-punk to soaring indie-rock to out-and-out pop bangers. Weâ€™re here today though to introduce newcomers to Tegan and Saraâ€™s music. Our Juvenalia interview (which you can listen tomorrow) with Sara touches on a lot of those issues. Their role as queer icons and their commitment to being themselves in the face of music industry homophobia and sexism has been immeasurably important to generations of LGBT people. Tegan and Sara mean a lot to a lot of people.

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