If you take just one song from this article make it the title track. The Con is a JEWEL. The Con is widely regarded as Tegan and Sara’s masterpiece which is why we’ve included four songs from it here. S peak Slow fizzes, pops, twists, and turns in unexecpected directions. The arrangements are less of their time than the previous albums. Where Does The Good Go? and Walking With A Ghost are unapologetically big songs. So Jealous is where Tegan and Sara take a huge leap forward. Do come back to them once you’re a fan though, there’s good stuff on there. Tegan and Sara’s first three albums, Under Feet Like Ours (1999), This Business Of Art (2000), and If It Was You (2002), are all good records but the band are still figuring themselves out stylistically so we’ve only included And Darling from If It Was You to represent this early part of their career. They’re two of the coolest people on the planet but their music is always earnest. They sing and play with total commitment. They always give the impression that they’re giving you everything, articulating want and regret with a directness and originality that few others can match. The constant through all of this is the quality of the songwriting Tegan and Sara are great songwriters. It’s difficult to know where to jump in with any critically acclaimed band with a big discography but with Tegan and Sara it’s especially daunting because, well, which Tegan and Sara do you want? Over eight albums and eighteen years, their music has evolved from alt-folk to pop-punk to soaring indie-rock to out-and-out pop bangers. We’re here today though to introduce newcomers to Tegan and Sara’s music. Our Juvenalia interview (which you can listen tomorrow) with Sara touches on a lot of those issues. Their role as queer icons and their commitment to being themselves in the face of music industry homophobia and sexism has been immeasurably important to generations of LGBT people. Tegan and Sara mean a lot to a lot of people.
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