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Tegan Rain og Sara Kiersten Quin utgjør en oppsiktsvekkende duo, og med det siktes det verken til deres seksuelle legning eller det faktum at de er eneggede tvillinger. De kanadiske jentene lager skamløst fengende og melodisk new wave-inspirert indiepop med interessante tekster og fløyelsmyk vokal.

I 2000 slapp de sitt debutalbum “This Business of Art” på Neil Youngs Vapor Records, og samme sommer reiste de på turnè med Neil Young og The Pretenders.

Deres sjette album” Sainthood” består av 13 pop-perler som omfavner temaet kjærlighet og forhold og alt som det medfører på godt og vondt. Tittelen på albumet har de lånt fra Leonard Cohens låt “Came So Far For Beauty”.

Produsent er igjen Chris Walla, gitarist i Death Cab For Cutie, som også har produsert album for Hot Hot Heat, The Decemberists og The Postal Service.

HØR FØRSTE SINGEL ‘HELL’ I SPILLEREN TIL HØYRE

OBJECTIVE
Tegan and Sara are a highly motivated musical group with ten years of touring and recording experience. They are committed to seek and obsessively discuss love until the end of time.

HISTORY
Tegan Quin and Sara Quin were born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on September 19, 1980. They are sisters. They began playing music together in high school. They were signed by Elliot Roberts and Neil Young to Vapor Records in 2000. Tegan and Sara are now signed to Vapor/Sire/Warner Bros.

EDUCATION

Sainthood, 2009
Produced by Chris Walla and Howard Redekopp. Mixed by Dave Sardy. Recorded at Sound City (Los Angeles) and Two Sticks (Seattle).
Tegan and Sara’s sixth studio album – Sainthood – addresses secular themes of devotion, delusion, and exemplary behavior in the pursuit of love and relationships. Inspired by emotional longing and the quiet actions we hope may be noticed by the objects of our affection, Sainthood is about obsession with romantic ideals. In the service of relationships we practice being perfect. We practice our sainthood in the hope that we will be rewarded with adoration. As we are driven to become anything for someone else, we sometimes become martyrs for our cause. Love, like faith, can never be held in an individual’s hands. But the story of a great love affair – especially one that is unrequited or has ended too soon – can be woven like scripture or a bedtime story. And so the themes of Sainthood are tied together by this simple title, borrowed, with great respect, from the lyrics of the Leonard Cohen song “Came So Far For Beauty:” I practiced all my sainthood / I gave to one and all / But the rumors of my virtue / They moved her not at all.