Tegan & Sara - The Con
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Free Music Review: Very original!
Hit: 4 Stars
Tegan and Sara make highly enjoyable indie/pop/punkish music that is easy on the ear. You can sing along to it as well.
It's a very refreshing antidote to the pop-chart garbage out there - this sort of music has longevity and won't fizzle out like the rubbish they play on the radio! Highly recommended if you're looking for something different, no matter what your taste in music.
Free Music Review: 2nd to So Jealous
Hit: 4 Stars
A very good cd with very good songs. As per usual with T&S you're not going to get anything groundbreaking, but their songwriting is always quality and entertaining. Great to sing to for freaks like me who sing to everything.Free Music Review: 3-1/2 stars -- Club music that isn't supposed to be club music
Hit: 3 Stars
I don't remember how I came across lesbian twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin (real lesbians, not just role-players like t.A.T.u.); I think their names just popped up one day when I was Google-ing for something else. Anyway, I picked up their latest album The Con, and it's not bad, but, well, it's just an acquired taste.
Just exactly what the ladies are singing about is anyone's guess (well, the first half of the album, anyway -- but the second half also features the confusing "Like O, Like H"), but the reason why I say the album has an acquired taste is because of their vocals. One of their voices sounds "normal" (for lack of a better term) while the other sounds like the kind of voice you'd hear from a voice actor. That, and the final track "Call It Off" is pretty off-key. But the ladies do still have good harmony and rhythm.
Another thing, though, is that even though the songs don't carry any electronic beats or anything, somehow it seems like they'd only really attract attention if you were heading to the dance floor. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. Tegan and Sara are talented musicians but their vibe is pretty one-sided (and I'm not talking about their orientation), so if you're not big on the club circuit, B.I.F.
Anthony Rupert
Free Music Review: Hot but not
Hit: 3 Stars
I root for these two, because let's face it, twin lesbians are hot. Unfortunately they sound like a straighter (so to speak) Throwing Muses without the song-writing talent, not yet anyway. "The Con" is a good example, it starts off great, a really nice guitar line, and has good bits in it, but overall it's kind of messed up, switching gears and tempos too much, the young composer's disease strikes again. "Plane" is a similar jumble. "Nineteen" is more straight forward, but half way through the overly-frenetic beat gets out of synch with the leads, oops.
They don't really have the vocal talent for this kind of music either, a kind of Juliania Hatfield sound without her power, which isn't saying a lot. "Knife" isn't a very good song, no real hook, but a deep set of pipes might have saved it. I think they'd be better over a shoegazer type sound, where it wouldn't matter what they were singing.
Overall I'm not really sure they are going to make it with this garage/techno/indie groove, their voices are too breathy and the songs too scattered. But I'm not writing them off entirely, they're young, and there are enough parts that show promise ("felt you in my legs before I met you"; nice), and besides . . . they're hot.
Free Music Review: Frustrating sketches never form an entire album
Hit: 3 Stars
I just can't get into this album. The songs float through the listener - blink and the record is over. It's frustrating, then, that so many of the songs feel half-formed and bland. The stand-outs are "Hop a Plane," "The Con," and "Like O, Like H". The rest is nothing remarkable - uniquely Tegan and Sara, but nothing I can savor. Pieces throughout the record never form a cohesive whole.