Tegan and Sara will release their 10th studio album ‘Crybaby’ this autumn.
The Canadian duo’s latest long-player was produced by John Congletonand recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle and Sargent Recorders in Los Angeles.
“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.
“It wasn’t even just that Sara was making lyric changes or reorganising 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. I’m the house-flipper of the Tegan and Sara band.”
It’s preceded by the single Yellow, with Sara explaining the track “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 spiralling backward in time”.
“Are we doomed to remain forever 15, breaking up and breaking apart? I hope not,” she muses, adding its video “was shot in Vancouver, a city that didn’t feel big enough to hold us both when we arrived here the first time. Twenty-two years later, we’re back, calling it home.”
The duo will support ‘Crybaby’ with a run of North American tour dates at intimate venues, beginning October 26 in Philadelphia and wrapping November 20 in the twin sisters’ current Vancouver homebase.
‘Crybaby’ is out October 21 and available to pre-order now.
