![]() ![]() “Call me up like you want your best friend, Turn me on like you want your boyfriend, But I don’t want to be your Secret anymore.”īy bringing this often unheard perspective into mainstream music, Tegan And Sara are doing more than simply opening the world’s eyes, they are producing genuinely good music. Tegan and Sara are known LGBT activists and this comes across most strongly in their lead single Boyfriend. The album also links deeply with their personal beliefs. My worries were pointless – Love You To Death offers 10 entertaining songs which are all meaningful and sonically cohesive. Pre-released singles Boyfriend and 100x were impressive, but U-Turn was a little average and by Stop Desire I was enjoying what I’d heard, but was equally concerned that this album would have amazing singles, followed by average filler-tracks. On first listen Love You To Death didn’t rock my world. Other than Heartthrob’s singles, I found myself tuning out of the rest of the album and so, when I heard about Love You To Death, I was hoping Tegan and Sara would have solidified their move into this style and created more than a few songs that would appeal to me. The Canadian duo’s last album Heartthrob was a huge jump from their previous indie vibe to electronic-pop and it didn’t move me. With seven LPs to their names already, Tegan and Sara Quin know exactly what they’re doing when it comes to song-writing. Like Heartthrob, this is pop music that is all heart all the time, and for that, the sisters deserve every accolade that comes their way.Tegan And Sara - Love You To Death by Jessikah Hope Stenson June 3, 2016 Their honesty and intelligence shine through at all times, and they take the sublime parts of the modern pop landscape, while giving no time to the ridiculous. Love You to Death is a brilliant consolidation of what Tegan and Sara started on Heartthrob, taking their deeply felt songs to the masses without losing any of what made them so great, so real, and ultimately so relatable no matter what one's situation in life may be to begin with. Their ballad game is strong, too, with Sara's breathtaking piano-led "100X" leading the way and the album-ending, montage-ready "Hang on to the Night" very close behind. The rollicking "Dying to Know," the punchy "Stop Desire," and "B/W/U," which clothes its sadness in bubbling synth pop, would have been highlights on Heartthrob. ![]() ![]() Maybe none as splashy as the previous album's "Closer," though "U-Turn" comes close, but the overall catchiness level is just a little bit higher here. The harsh truths of "Boyfriend" or "That Girl" aren't typical in pop music and that's why the duo are able to connect with listeners on a deeper level even as the huge pop hooks have them singing along.Īnd there are lots of hooks on Love You to Death. Their version of pop music doesn't involve California girls or disco balls, AutoTune or EDM.īeneath the freshly scrubbed surfaces, the songs are as powerful and real as anything they did as an acoustic duo or an alt-rock band. In the middle of it all are the stripped-raw, painfully honest vocals of the sisters telling the truth and laying themselves emotionally bare. Their next album, 2016's Love You to Death, stuck to the same basic template, retaining Greg Kurstin as producer and surrounding their heartbreak ballads and empowering new wave rockers with glitteringly clean synths, percolating drum machines, and state of the art production. Turns out the sisters are great pop vocalists, too. Their slickly produced modern pop sound also gained them lots of new fans in return without sacrificing the intense emotions, lyrical insight, and songcraft their earlier albums delivered. Tegan and Sara have never been shy about changing up their sound, but 2013's Heartthrob was their biggest leap yet, one so drastic that it left some of their fans behind.
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