Maybe this comes off the heels of news that Invisible Children just scored Yeasayer for their Blogotheque Music Documentary, you can read more about that HERE…

But I’ve been a Blogotheque fan for sometime now and I just noticed that Tegan & Sara just recently did a Take Away Show. I got stoked because T&S were the soundtrack of Summer ‘07 for me and my friend Jenni, we’d take roadtrips everywhere and somehow almost always end up listening to The Con. I haven’t heard it in a while, so this is super nostalgic. I hope you’re enjoying this french video kick I’m on.

Tegan & Sara – Nineteen – A Take Away Show from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Tegan and Sara’s new album Sainthood is out Oct. 27th. There is a distinctive growth in their sound, while somehow maintaining that teenaged romanticism- mulling over heartbreak in their heads, analysing how it all went down, trying to get inside someone’s head. It’s often the same themes that bleed into every album- this album was packaged in a safer shell than The Con that flirted with electronic, acoustic, rock and a variation of all three- creating an altogether unique sound- while this album is more consistent.

It’s got more of a pop punk feel, with songs like ‘Northshore’ that I think sounds a little like Subterranean Homesick Blues- but most people would probably disagree. ‘Someday’ is my favorite track, where it goes, “might do something that I’d be proud of someday, mark my words I might be something someday” less of a motivational anthem, more of a denial of a broken heart and only the ‘mights’ to hold up their wounded pride. It’s got those roundabout harmonies towards the end that float right into the next track, ‘Hell’ their powerful first single that is filled with all the lyrical ambiguities that somehow just work even though you have no idea what they’re ‘feeling too’. 

Tegan and Sara- Someday

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Tegan and Sara- Arrow

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Tegan and Sara- Northshore

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Tegan and Sara’s sixth album ‘Sainthood’ is set to be released Oct. 27th, and their single ‘Hell’ is out and it’s a fantastic peak of what we can expect on the Chris Walla produced album. I’m so so so excited for new Tegan and Sara- The Con was played on repeat three summers ago and immediately takes me back to car rides with my friend Jenni to cross the border again and again thinking up different reasons for our frequent trips- but almost always going to shows and festivals. Their musical longevity is largely credited to their enormous credibility earned by their consistently well crafted albums, often themes of love and relationships- reworking pop, redefining the realms through which so many female songwriters operate. Their is a fierceness that coexists with their vulnerability that makes their music so sad and beautiful, but allowing us to feel hopeful all the while.

Sainthood is about an obsession with romantic ideals. There is a similarity between the pursuit of love and the pursuit of faith, as explained,the themes of Sainthood are tied together by this simple title, borrowed, with great respect, from the lyrics of the Leonard Cohen song ‘Came So Far For Beauty’: ‘I practiced all my sainthood / I gave to one and all / But the rumors of my virtue / They moved her not at all.’” 

Tegan and Sara- Hell

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