![]() "Relief Next to Me" thumps like wet newspaper though, her weak similes never building up to a satisfying payoff: a big chorus, a cute melody. "Knife Going In"'s instruments drift out of tune, which gives it a seasick, disconnected quality. Sara, who has the more strident voice of the two, writes their more complex songs. "Hop a Plane" does better for Tegan, because the line she repeats here is catchy enough to stay pleasurable over each iteration. Her lyrical indugences can also be difficult to swallow. Tegan's songs are conventional, so they rely on embellishment- like the Phil Collins-esque drums on "Are You Ten Years Ago"- to make them more interesting. I can only imagine that co-producer Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie) contributed to the problem. There's an earnestness they'd do well to drop- if they know love's a sham, and know the sham's a sham, then sing about that already- but they don't. It sounds like a rush of emotion, but flows awkwardly. Maybe they should have called it "No Exit". Lyrically, there are as many turds as gems though, and they usually appear within five words of the word "heart." "I want to draw you a floorplan of my head and heart/ I want to give directions, helpful hints, what you’ll be looking for," Sara pleads on "Floorplan". Such examples are everywhere on The Con: "When I jerk away from holding hands with you/ I know these habits hurt important parts of you," they sing on "Back in Your Head", a song that boasts the album's best keyboard lines. "Walking with a Ghost", a song later covered by the White Stripes, was perhaps its finest, if only because it showed how Tegan and Sara can add depth to heartache through keen observation. Vivek Shraya – I Take All the Blame (Bonus Track)ġ8.The duo's 2004 album So Jealous had great moments, too. Cyndi Lauper – Back in Your Head (Bonus Track)ġ7. Trashique (GRIMES X HANA) – Dark Come Soonġ5. Hayley Williams of Paramore – Nineteenġ3. The CD and digital/streaming album will be released on October 20.ġ0. The preorder for The Con X: Covers will begin on September 19 via. We are beyond grateful for the contributions of each artist, and we hope fans of The Con will be moved by their interpretations. Somehow all these new covers manage to come together to add a new chapter to The Con. It’s a universal language that bonds people together from different worlds, countries, and experiences. Music allows us to project our own stories, losses, and anxieties onto the melodies and words of someone else. All the artists agreed to donate their time and energy to the project and their labels all agreed to waive their fees as well.Īt the core of our planning was the hope that this new project would tell another chapter in the story that was The Con. Their inspiration could come from the original record or The Con Demos, our first home recordings that were released after The Con came out. We encouraged each artist to approach the song they were covering in any fashion they saw fit. With that intention set, we asked 14 artists who were either outspoken allies of the LGTBQ community or LGBTQ themselves to each cover a song from The Con. ![]() But we also wanted a companion piece that would live on past the anniversary, hence The Con X: Covers album was born.įrom day one we wanted the proceeds to go to our newly-launched Tegan and Sara Foundation, which raises money for self-identified women and girls in the LGBTQ community. Indisputably our most raw and intimate record, we wanted to ensure we created a new package that did justice to the layers of attachment that both we and our fans have had to The Con.Īlmost immediately we established that a tour playing all 14 songs in a more intimate and stripped-down arrangement would be special and memorable for our diehard fans. Important because it was the biggest leap we had made in attempting to write a cohesive group of songs that told a painful and anxious story about our different relationships to loss, death, love, compulsion, fear, letting go and moving on. Important not just because of the music or the elaborate way we approached recording it 10 years ago with Chris Walla. This past winter, as the 10th anniversary of The Con quickly approached, Sara and I started to brainstorm meaningful ways to celebrate what was easily one of our most important records.
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