Tegan and Sara drop new album Hey, I’m Simply Like You: Stream
Tegan and Sara are formally again with their new album, Hey, I’m Simply Like You. It’s obtainable to stream in full beneath through Apple Music or Spotify.
At the moment’s new effort marks the synthpop duo’s ninth general and serves because the follow-up to 2016’s Love You to Demise. It’s comprised of 12 reworked demos the Quin sisters initially wrote whereas in highschool. Tegan and Sara stumbled upon the fabric whereas placing collectively their new memoir, Excessive Faculty.
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In an interview with Consequence of Sound contributor Nina Corcoran, the band additional mentioned the expertise of rediscovering their previous tracks,
“Actually, it was like I may bodily keep in mind what it felt prefer to be 17 and writing songs and the anticipation and terror of leaving highschool. All of it flooded again. The factor is, I didn’t cry as a result of I used to be unhappy. I cried as a result of I felt overwhelming pleasure and grief at how dismissive of that model of me I had been. All that work, all that artwork, I had determined it was crap. I ignored it, and it felt like I had ignored this complete story of myself. It got here flooding again, and that made me so excited to work on it. The music felt very very similar to Tegan and Sara — it’s not like we found our childhood prog rock band or one thing — however there have been nonetheless idiosyncratic quirks, like how usually we sang collectively or issues like that. It was someway precisely what I wanted to listen to.”
The 2-piece hit the studio to work on the album this previous April, and so they did so with — for the primary time — a workforce of all girls. Alex Hope (Troye Sivan) offered manufacturing and Rachael Findlen served as engineer, whereas Beatriz Artola blended and Emily Lazar mastered the recordings. Annie Kennedy dealt with assistant engineer duties, and Carla Azar and Catherine Hiltz appeared on drums and bass, respectively.
Early previews of the LP embody the title observe and “I’ll Be Again Sometime”.
In help of Hey, I’m Simply Like You, Tegan and Sara are at the moment on the highway on an intimate, “principally” acoustic North American tour. Snag your tickets right here.
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