When you can convey both of those elements in a single song, you're really doing the good work of popular music. Here comes the F breath before we get a litt G le bit closer C. During their 20-year career, twins Tegan and Sara Quin have released 10 studio albums and sold more than 1m records of off-kilter, emotional pop.

But beyond commercial outreach, Heartthrob is the work of musicians interested in explaining, with lyrical precision arriving in billowing choruses, the small moments that make affairs of the heart both so specific and so universal. Tegan And Sara - Closer Chords All I want to g F et is, a G little bit cl C oser. Archive image: courtesy of Tegan and Sara. Initial sales have been larger than those of any previous Tegan and Sara album, and they're touring in larger arenas as an opening act for the Grammy-winning band fun. If Tegan and Sara wanted to expand their audience with a pop album, they certainly seem to have succeeded.

I'm glad we live in a time when the idea of putting a glossy pop sheen on one's singer-songwriter pensées doesn't lead to accusations of 'selling out.' Don't let your ears slip-slide over the surface of these tunes, because this is music that is often loaded with a carefully articulated sense of doubt or hopelessness that Tegan and Sara suggest needs to be shaken off, through a triumph of the pop-music will. But the material on Heartthrob is very much a collaboration of sounds and sensibilities, and these women are united in expressing the joys and the agony - the often luxurious, languid agony - that anyone who has been in love can identify with. Enough that the sisters drafted producer Greg Kurstin to help them finish the song that became 'Closer,' the lead single from the Heartthrob LP. In the past, it was frequently possible to distinguish between the songs each wrote - Tegan's were often tempestuous and fulsome, Sara's more poppy. Sisterly alt-rock duo Tegan And Sara have been flirting with synthier textures in recent years, and their new single 'Closer' is pretty much a full-on dive into that stuff - balanced about. Tegan and Sara When Tegan and Sara were ready to record the duo's seventh studio album, they were eager for change. It celebrates a one-on-one intimacy that extends to the way this duo is reaching out to what it hopes will be a larger audience.Īs openly gay women who've never made their sexuality or their sexual politics the subject of their material, Tegan and Sara have always created romantic music about falling in love and living through relationships both good and bad. 'Closer' is indeed a song about getting closer, emotionally and physically. Closer - song and lyrics by Tegan and Sara Spotify Listen to Closer on Spotify. The sisters' voices entwine to sing the catchy chorus with a soaring quality that would be airy and light were the words not so earthy and carnal. Mar 10 Tomorrow morning Part Two of the Crybaby tour goes on sale at 10am local time.

'Closer,' the first single from Tegan and Sara's new album Heartthrob, pulses with an urgency that's propelled by the synthesizer keyboards of one of the album's producers, Greg Kurstin. Since then, they've produced seven studio albums. Twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin have been writing songs since they were 15 and independently released their first full-length album in 1999.

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