My favorite songs on the album are Closer, Goodbye Goodbye, I'm Not Your Hero, Drove Me Wild, How Come You Don't Want Me, Now I'm All Messed Up, and Shock To Your System. As with So Jealous, The Con, and Sainthood, Heartthrob is an album I can listen to from beginning to end. It is a more pop-driven album but the songs are still top notch, reminding me a lot of some of the 80s tunes in my music library. I absolutely LOVE their music and couldn't be happier with their newest offering. Tegan and Sara is my favorite band and it's not even close. Heartthrob elicits the same response from me - while it is a new sound from the Canadian duo, I absolutely love it. They'd changed their sound somewhat with their last album, Sainthood, but it was a change I welcomed wholeheartedly once I'd listened to it. Word was that they'd sold out and gone pop, abandoning their acoustic-driven sound. When you can convey both of those elements in a single song, you're really doing the good work of popular music.A Sensational Album and New Direction from My Favorite Bandīefore this album was released, I was worried about what I was hearing about Tegan and Sara's new sound. But beyond commercial outreach, Heartthrob is the work of musicians interested in explaining, with lyrical precision arriving in billowing choruses, the small moments that make affairs of the heart both so specific and so universal. Initial sales have been larger than those of any previous Tegan and Sara album, and they're touring in larger arenas as an opening act for the Grammy-winning band fun. If Tegan and Sara wanted to expand their audience with a pop album, they certainly seem to have succeeded.
I'm glad we live in a time when the idea of putting a glossy pop sheen on one's singer-songwriter pensées doesn't lead to accusations of "selling out." Don't let your ears slip-slide over the surface of these tunes, because this is music that is often loaded with a carefully articulated sense of doubt or hopelessness that Tegan and Sara suggest needs to be shaken off, through a triumph of the pop-music will. But the material on Heartthrob is very much a collaboration of sounds and sensibilities, and these women are united in expressing the joys and the agony - the often luxurious, languid agony - that anyone who has been in love can identify with. Heartthrob is of our current time it sounds like other music I currently listen to and love. 'Closer,' the first single from Tegan and Sara's new album Heartthrob, pulses with an urgency that's propelled by the synthesizer keyboards of one of the album's producers, Greg Kurstin.The. In the past, it was frequently possible to distinguish between the songs each wrote - Tegan's were often tempestuous and fulsome, Sara's more poppy.
The outcome could result in very few new listeners and an alienation of their. It celebrates a one-on-one intimacy that extends to the way this duo is reaching out to what it hopes will be a larger audience.Īs openly gay women who've never made their sexuality or their sexual politics the subject of their material, Tegan and Sara have always created romantic music about falling in love and living through relationships both good and bad. With Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara have stepped out on that metaphorical cliff. On July 4, 2013, Heartthrob was certified Gold in Canada. It is also the first Tegan and Sara record to chart in New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. Heartthrob debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 49,000 copies in its first week and securing the band's highest chart position to date.
"Closer" is indeed a song about getting closer, emotionally and physically. Heartthrob is the seventh studio album by Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara, released on January 29, 2013, on Neil Young's label Vapor Records through Warner Bros. The sisters' voices entwine to sing the catchy chorus with a soaring quality that would be airy and light were the words not so earthy and carnal. Tegan And Sara Heartthrob Warner Music Canada RATING By now Tegan and Sara are what you could call seasoned veterans on Canadas Indie scene. "Closer," the first single from Tegan and Sara's new album Heartthrob, pulses with an urgency that's propelled by the synthesizer keyboards of one of the album's producers, Greg Kurstin. Since then, they've produced seven studio albums. Twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin have been writing songs since they were 15 and independently released their first full-length album in 1999.
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