![]() “This was the first time where, while we were still drafting our demos, we were thinking about how the songs were going to work together,” says Tegan. For their tenth studio album, Crybaby, they got inside each other’s songs in a whole new way. The first volume is due for release in spring 2023.Roadrunner | Brookline, MA Crybaby 2023 Tour TEGAN AND SARA Carlie Hanson FRI, at 08:00PM EDT Ages: All Ages Doors Open: 07:00PM OnSale: Fri, at 10:00AM EST Tegan and Sara are still evolving the way they collaborate, even twenty years into recording together and twenty more as twin sisters. The contemporary story is about identical twins growing up and growing apart, coming to terms with their queerness and falling in love with music over the course of junior high. Outspoken advocates for equality, the duo in 2016 created the Tegan and Sara Foundation, which fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women.Īlso on the horizon is the middle-grade graphic novel duology Tegan & Sara: Junior High and Tegan & Sara: Crush, written by the twins and illustrated by Eisner Award winner Tillie Walden. Tegan and Sara have received three Juno Awards, a Grammy nomination, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award and the 2018 New York Civil Liberties Union Award. Tegan and Sara recently launched I Think We’re Alone Now, a Substack newsletter that includes both free and paid-tier content, spanning audio and text-message conversations as well as essays, lyric annotations and behind-the-scenes looks about their upcoming projects. With that storytelling at the core, they have built a multi-faceted media empire that stretches into TV, books, newsletter and public service, but always deeply rooted in music. With nine studio albums to their credit and millions of records sold, Tegan and Sara have used music as a way of storytelling throughout their 20-year career. Twenty-two years later, we’re back, calling it home.” Are we doomed to remain forever 15, breaking up and breaking apart? I hope not.” She adds that the video “was shot in Vancouver, a city that didn’t feel big enough to hold us both when we arrived here the first time. Of the single Yellow, Sara says the song “was written after we began to take steps to heal the bruises we have both carried with us since adolescence and early adulthood - wounds that never quite healed right and flare up seasonally, sending us spiraling backward in time. I’m the house-flipper of the Tegan and Sara band.” ![]() “It wasn’t even just that Sara was making lyric changes or reorganizing the parts to my songs, it was that she was also saying to me, ‘This song is going to be faster,’ or ‘It’s going to be in a different key.’ But Sara effectively improves everything of mine that she works on.” Sara adds with a laugh, “Maybe I am the renovator. T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Canadian duo Tegan and Sara’s 10th studio album Crybaby was produced by John Congleton ( Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten), Sara Quin and Tegan Quin and recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle and Sargent Recorders in Los Angeles.
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