The Quin sisters have gained a fair amount of popularity in the indie world, but this album is sure to take them to the next level, with two members of Death Cab for Cutie co-producing.
TEGAN AND SARAH THE CON FULL
It’s the fifth full length album from Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara. The Con, on the outside, looks like a headstrong, fast punk album, with half of the songs falling under three minutes and three of them under two. For those coming to the shows we'll be so happy to see you.Review Summary: Indie pop goodness but underdeveloped Our intention is to take a long break from touring after this fall run. fix or mend my feelings about it all and it's actually been very healing … performing these songs, not from a really super depressed place, is going to be really exciting.”Īlthough diehard fans in Vancouver will be readying themselves for one of the most nostalgic weekend of their lives, it comes with some unsettling news: In a tweet earlier this month, the pair announced that after this tour they’ll be “taking a long break from touring.” Revisiting the album has been transformative, Quin says. To preserve their relationship, they took some time apart, and lived in different cities. “We were just completely burned out, we were fighting, we got into a physical altercation, and I remember us being like, 'this is absurd,’” Quin says. At the end of their original two-year tour of The Con, they had to cancel a few shows due to exhaustion and sibling conflict. Given the hardship surrounding The Con’s original release, it’s a small miracle for fans that Sara has been willing to pick it up again. “I think if we had been straight, or even male, I think we would have been embraced, and probably would have seen our career … I think we sort of got fucked by the press, and kind of marginalization ended up delaying a lot of the success that would come after The Con tour.” “Whether it was conscious or not, some bias and discrimination around being gay,” Sara says, with some hesitation. “There was a feeling like, ‘Oh my god there are people coming to all the shows, we're playing way more cities in Europe, OK, we're on our own tour bus, we don't have to share it with the support bands.’ Even though now I can see now it was a very large jump, to us it felt very incremental.”Īs queer artists, their success was hard-won, with occasionally homophobic and misogynistic press coverage describing them as “wiccan lesbians” and “ tampon rock.” “I don't think we knew we were having the biggest success of our career,” she says. Sara says that, at the time, she and Tegan were unaware of the magnitude of the album’s impact. Vancouver-based musician Louise Burns says 'The Con' demonstrated a fresh take on pop music. The sisters, now 10 years wiser, have achieved mainstream success and, in a slightly unusual but welcomed move, have resurrected The Con – a melodic, sometimes awkward, but deeply personal album – to tour it across North America. “We would talk to every single kid, and we would take pictures and we would sign things and I would get on the bus and get into the bunk, in my clothes, and cry.” On tour, “after the shows we would stand out by the bus, and there would be 100 kids,” she recalls. Meanwhile, the world around her couldn’t be more thrilled for her existence and her art. Her twin sister and bandmate, Tegan, was unable to pull her out of the depression, and a thick tension permeated their relationship. Then 27, she had just bought a house with her partner but the relationship was coming quickly to an end. There had been several deaths in the family, explains Quin. “So there's a kind of irony that it was our fans’ favourite record.” “ I was totally and entirely miserable… writing the record itself, my life was just starting to get a bit unstable,” she says. Reached by phone before The Con X Tour, celebrating the 10th anniversary of their break-out album, Quin told Westender about the personal struggles that dominated the writing, recording and touring of The Con. That Tegan and Sara’s fifth album, The Con, was a fan favourite, is ironic says Sara Quin.
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