Album Review: Hearthrob by Tegan and Sara

The duo has been producing numbers of record for 13 years and this year they finally released their 7th album “Hearthrob” on January 29, so here’s a bit review of what I think about the album.

Who are they? This multitalented Canadian twins has been buzzing around in the music scene since they were in school in 1997, but it was in 1999 they released their first independent album “Under Feet Like Ours”, and in the following year they got signed to Young’s Vapor Record labels and released “This Business of Art” which made them touring around for quite some times. In 2002 the band released their 3rd album “If It Was You”, well they haven’t got much attention but it was in 2004 when they released their 4th album “So Jelous” they gain wider success, especially when their song “Walking with a Ghost” covered by The White Stripes. In 2007 to 2009 they collaborated with many producer and musicians, such as Chris Walla and Jason McGerr (DCFC), Matt Sharp (The Rentals), Weezer, Hunter Burgan (AFI), and Kaki King, and then released their 6th album “Sainthood”, and received high feedback from music medias such as Spin, for their honest lyrics and music. Their “Get Along” live footage was nominated for Best Long Form Music Video at the 2013 Grammy Awards.

How’s the latest album goes? They recorded Hearthrob album in february last year, and the first single “Closer” was released last Sepember. When I saw the video we can see that they still have the pop young influences of two teenager, and off course this single if I can say is like a better version of Carly Rae Jepsen, and I wonder why she was more famous than Tegan and Sara, I mean, this duo is much a better pop artist than any solo pop girl out there. Anyway back to the review, this album was so much mature then their previous albums. If we hear more of an upbeat, pop rock version of teenage girl bands, in this album you can hear more of an adult adolescenes kinda of music. The second of the album, “I Was A Fool” remind me of band Tatu mixed with M2M but less the disco and gay kinda sound, its a nice pop song you want to hear in the middle of the rain as your breakup song though. “Now I’m All Messed Up” is a very unique ballad and pretty much a catchy song to be use as love movie soundtrack. A little of electronic synth sound can be hear on the song “Shock To Your System”, another nice catchy tunes that I found interesting is “I’m Not Your Hero”, here you can hear more of the pop less indie but still it’s the kind of song you can’t compare with other teenage pop songs, but if you’re looking for an indie pop songs try to listen to “Feel It in My Bones” maybe it’s a little bit sounded like the up beat version of lo-fi songs of Lana Del Rey, a little bit of both. But in general I like this album because it was a good music for everyone in general, even if you don’t like or trying to listen to alternative pop songs.