What are three things you could never live without? We interviewed the duo about what it’s like to make music and tour with the girl you shared a womb with. The two started as folk duo when they were alt-rock teenagers and have grown into seasoned pop stars who write anthemic, romantic hits that make you want to fist jump your hair brush as you cry to the moody lyrics. Tegan and Sara play the Crystal Ballroom Nov 19 with Tomberlin, 9 pm, all ages.Canadian-born twins Tegan & Sara Quin are the most famous twin sisters in pop music known as Tegan & Sara. It's a really different kind of Tegan and Sara record, and I think it'll end up probably being a record that we really ended up loving and playing a lot of because it feels like it's ours.” “My job is to make sure that I am making something that feels really exciting because I'm the one that's going to have to sing it forever and I'm the one that has to put my name on it,” Quin says. That works perfectly for at least one-half of the band, anyway. The result is an album that mines the past, notably the mainstream pop of 2013’s Heartthrob, but looks to the future as well. They returned to the studio, this time in Los Angeles (ew), to create Crybaby. The music became a dialogue instead of a monologue, with each sister contributing and critiquing in their efforts to build something great. They went back to their respective homes to dig through the demos they had been scratching away at during lockdown, passing songs back and forth in their new iteration of collaboration. Congleton suggested they go all-in, and the Quins agreed. Once they got in the studio, they realized they had a lot more than an EP's worth of material. The duo was in Seattle in August 2021 to record a song or two with Congleton, who is perhaps best known as St. The creative push is particularly impressive because the album wasn’t actually supposed to happen. The sisters pushed themselves to try new musical elements, like on “Smoking Weed Alone,” where they sing to each other instead of the audience. “In pretty typical Tegan and Sara fashion, we just burned everything down to the ground, and then kind of rebuilt it.” “All of a sudden we had all this time off the road, and all this time to sort of get creative,” says Quin. The Quins had earned some couch-and-sourdough-starter-filled downtime when the March 2020 lockdowns rolled through-in September 2019 they released their memoir along with their ninth studio album Hey, I'm Just Like You, featuring songs they wrote as teenagers and re-recorded as adults-but the creativity didn't stop. “We should have just watched television and learned how to bake, but instead, we were like, 'No, no, we have to work. ![]() That compulsion to hustle became even more obvious when the pandemic hit. They’ve released book sets and crafted long-form music videos-2011's " Get Along" earned a Grammy nod-and they run the Tegan and Sara Foundation to promote LGBTQ+ causes. ![]() It was featured in The Lego Movie and nominated for several awards, including a Grammy and an Oscar. They’ve now released 10 albums that have veered from alt-folky to folk-pop to indie rock to hyper-pop and back around again, including a little track called "Everything Is AWESOME!!!," an optimistic dance collaboration with the Lonely Island. Soon after, they hit the road, opening for Neil Young. Tegan and Sara have been working musicians since they were 18 when, in 1998, they signed a contract with PolyGram Records. I’m no therapist, but she may be on to something. She only had 15 minutes-because holy hell, these two are busy-but that busyness may hint at something longtime fans of their ever-expanding work may already know: Tegan and Sara are busy intentionally. On a recent tour stop in Boston, Tegan Quin got on the phone to chat about all of Tegan and Sara's latest projects from a club's medicinal-green room that had all the charm of a prison cell (her words!). ![]() On top of all that, Sara apparently decided to one-up Crybaby by having a real-life baby? I mean, why not. Now, they are making their way cross-country on a mostly sold-out nationwide tour. Then there’s the Rashomon-style television show, High School, based on their memoir of the same name. First, there’s the new hook-filled, indie-pop album Crybaby, recorded in Seattle with John Congleton and released on October 21 via Mom + Pop Music. Twenty years into their joint recording career, it seems the Quin twins are hustling harder than ever.
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