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As lesbians who never reference their oppression or even their sexuality, Tegan and Sara don't have men to lash out at, put up with or gripe about. This may be why
their uncommonly detailed love songs are so short on drama - a riddle
worth pondering, because their keyboard-heavy, New Wave-ish music is
also uncommonly catchy. When Sara changes up a chorus with a melodically
climactic "But I promise this/I won't go my whole life/Telling you I
don't need," or Tegan caps a verse with a hook that goes, "All I need to
hear is that you're not mine," your musical impulse is to empathize, if
not identify. But the objects of their romantic ambivalence remain
distant - the focus is the singer's feelings, examined rather than
indulged. Tune seekers will admire many of these songs - "The Con,"
"Nineteen," "Back in Your Head," "Like O, Like H." But that doesn't mean
they'll fully connect with them.
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Track List
- I Was Married
- Relief Next To Me
- The Con
- Knife Going In
- Are You Ten Years Ago
- Back In Your Head
- Hop A Plane
- Soil, Soil
- Burn Your Life Down
- Nineteen
- Floorplan
- Like O, Like H
- Dark Come Soon
- Call It Off
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