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Tegan And Sara - Heartthrob
Label.........................: Vapor/Warner Bros.
Genre.........................: Indie
StoreDate.....................: Jan-29-2013
Source........................: CDDA
Grabber.......................: Exact Audio Copy (Secure Mode)
Encoding Scheme...............: Lame 3.98.4 V0 VBR Joint-Stereo
Size..........................: 66.01 MB
Total Playing Time............: 36:27
Release Notes:
ask all the one-hit wonders and sophomore slumpers, all the
record after record, year after year.
Only a relative handful of artists have the vision
and creative stamina to keep on going for the long haul,
and most of them turn out to be shape-shifters, evolving and
changing course as they go, trying on different personas
and musical styles, surprising and sometimes disturbing their
duck into a nearby phone booth and step out in tights and a
cape.
Which brings us to Tegan and Sara, and their
stunning new record, Heartthrob. If you know and love
sound of Heartthrobwill come as a shock, almost a
deliberate provocation. What happened to those neurotic,
self-deprecating indie rockers, the twins from Canada
obsessively chronicling their crushes and heartbreaks?
When did they become so confident and radio-friendly, so
unapologetically mainstream? Are Tegan and Sara pop
stars? Why would they even want to be?
After all, it would have been easy enough for
Tegan and Sara to just make another record, keep the old
machine humming. Things have been going well for them
for a long time. Six albums in thirteen years, a passionately
devoted international audience, some serious brushes with
commercial success, an impressive catalogue of consistently
wonderful songs, to my mind one of the most striking and
underrated bodies of work in the past decade. But they
finished their last tour feeling oddly dissatisfied. They
a deep breath and a long look in the mirror, and popped
into that nearby phone booth.
And out came Heartthrob.
represents a more collaborative way of making music. For
the first time, the sisters actually wrote a lot of the songs
together (in the past there were Tegan songs and Sara
songs), and they surrendered more control than usual in the
studio, dividing songs between 3 producers (Greg Kurstin,
Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Mike Elizondo) and a handful
of outside musicians to capture the sound they were looking
the process.
For all the superficial differences, though,
Heartthrobbears the true hallmarks of a Tegan and Sara
record. The songs are terrific, full of lust and longing and
regret, bouncing between the familiar poles of erotic rapture
usual, a little more universal and philosophical, as if Tegan
and Sara are reflecting on the experience of passion rather
than undergoing its ecstasies and torments in real time. For
get around me? Does your body ache when you think about
reflection, a retrospective clarity about past relationships:
the sun/Your arms outstretched your hair cut shorter than
the glossy surface of the music, and a willingness to tackle
subjects beyond the confines of romance. This is especially
examines the difficulty of maintaining artistic independence
Heartthrobgives us Tegan and Sara in their
superhero tights and capes, ready to conquer the pop
universe, and the new outfits suit them just as well as their
these songs in an arena, or blasting on a car radio, or
sense of disorientation the first couple of times you hear
them, a momentary inability to put a name to those familiar
already be singing along.
Tracklisting
01. Closer 3:29
02. Goodbye, Goodbye 3:26
03. I Was A Fool 3:24
04. I'm Not Your Hero 3:51
05. Drove Me Wild 3:49
06. How Come You Don't Want Me 2:51
07. I Couldn't Be Your Friend 4:19
08. Love They Say 3:34
09. Now I'm All Messed Up 4:08
10. Shock To Your System 3:36
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