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1. #TEGAN AND SARA 2020 HOW TO#
2. #TEGAN AND SARA 2020 PROFESSIONAL#
3. #TEGAN AND SARA 2020 SERIES#
4. #TEGAN AND SARA 2020 TV#

I wanted a narrative that could tie into our relationship and some of the things that were happening in our life, even if the song wasn't about that. "Some of Tegan's songs became almost like duets, because she allowed me to go in there and challenge her to rewrite lyrics. "With this album, I wanted there to be a dialogue that we could have about the songs," says Sara.

#TEGAN AND SARA 2020 PROFESSIONAL#

Sara came back with tracks like the dancefloor-ready "I'm Okay" and the sweet, anthemic "Yellow," among others - as she puts it, "songs about change, and never changing, and the nostalgia aching in our bones." And Tegan, who had been working on her own cache of songs during the pandemic, came forth with "Fucking Up What Matters" and "Smoking Weed Alone" and "Pretty Shitty Time" - or as she puts it, songs "about my body, about age, about love, about the loneliness I felt the past couple years, about how it feels to have everything you want and a desire to throw it all away." Informed by some of the intense new experiences they've had the past couple years - the stress and trauma of the pandemic, the upheaval of changing their entire professional team including their label and management, and other personal trials and tribulations - the twins found some of their most potent inspiration yet, and a willingness to try doing things differently. They went back home and dug through their demos, looking for songs that echoed the spirit of those first couple songs. "There was so much energy," says Tegan, "and once we were in the studio with John and started adding layers, it started to feel alive, and it was like, 'OK, change of plans! Let's not just focus on a couple songs. It is co-created and executive produced by Tegan, Sara and Clea DuVall and produced by Plan B Entertainment and Amazon Studios.īut, within hours of their arrival at Seattle's Studio Litho, they felt more new ideas coming, and an unexpected rush of enthusiasm when Congleton quickly suggested that they record an entire album together.

#TEGAN AND SARA 2020 SERIES#

High School is a new coming-of-age series that just finished production in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

#TEGAN AND SARA 2020 TV#

They had, after all, recently signed on to make the upcoming TV adaptation of their 2019 memoir, High School, and were planning to focus on that first.

At that point, the plan was to simply record a couple singles, and they truly had no intention of beginning their next album. It was their first time leaving Canada since the start of the pandemic, and they thought they'd just be getting their feet wet at in-person recording again. In August of 2021, they booked studio time in Seattle with producer John Congleton, whose previous works include albums they love by Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen and Future Islands. "They felt very new and fresh and really different from anything we'd been doing," she says. I started fooling around with a very simple sampling app called Keezy, using it to make all sorts of vocal samples, and that's how those songs began." Tegan remembers Sara sending her those demos and instantly feeling inspired by them.

#TEGAN AND SARA 2020 HOW TO#

When the pandemic started, I would go to my little studio and mess around - not really thinking about making an album for Tegan and Sara, just thinking about how to get through the day and not collapse under stress and anxiety about the pandemic. I'll make these instrumentals with vocal ad libs, and I'm basically always working on it. The reality is that Sara did step up greatly in her role as a producer for this exciting, elevated collection of songs, which began with her glitchy lo-fi demos for "I Can't Grow Up" and "All I Wanted." She says: "I've been joking about making 'my bedroom electronic record' for the last twenty years. I'm the house-flipper of the Tegan and Sara band," "It wasn't even just that Sara was making lyric changes or reorganizing 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. "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. For their tenth studio album, Crybaby, they got inside each other's songs in a whole new way. Tegan and Sara are still evolving the way they collaborate, even twenty years into recording together and twenty more as twin sisters.