Tegan and Sara Record Songs They Wrote In High School For New Album 'Hey, I'm Just Like You'
Tuesday, 09 July 2019
Written by Laura Johnson
Tegan and Sara will release a new album this autumn.
'Hey, I'm Just Like You' consists of songs the sibling duo wrote in high school. Cassettes containing over 40 songs they thought were lost were found while writing their memoir High School, which arrives on September 24.
"Rediscovered, reimagined, rerecorded - the new Tegan and Sara record is made up entirely of new studio recordings of those lost songs," they said in the album trailer's accompanying note. In a Facebok post they discussed the record further:
"Last year while writing our new memoir, we came across two cassette tapes with dozens of songs we wrote in high school. Defiant and melodramatic, the songs captured the exultation and grief of first loves, first losses, ecstatic kiss-offs, and psychedelic tributes to the friendships we had as teenagers. It had been over twenty years since we had heard the songs and quite honestly, we both expected to listen once, cringe, and bury them for another couple decades. But they were good. Like, really good. They were raw, and in some cases the lyrics were hard to decipher. But the melodies, the honesty in the words, and the joy listening to them after all these years was undeniable. We decided immediately that those songs were the demos we’d use to build the new Tegan and Sara record. Hey, I’m Just Like You has twelve songs, but in making those twelve songs we pulled sections from nearly twenty of those lost high school demos. We kept the original lyrics where we could, and we only wrote four new sections. In some cases, Sara sings songs I wrote, and in other cases I sing songs she wrote. For the first time ever, we share vocal duties on a handful of songs making them the first truly “Tegan AND Sara” songs. Alex Hope produced the record in Vancouver, where we recorded this past April and May. It is also the FIRST Tegan and Sara album produced, performed, engineered, mixed, and mastered by a team of all women."
The follow up to 2016's 'Love You To Death' and 2017's ‘The Con X: Covers' will arrive on September 27.
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