We'd lost a friend and also our first really close family member. It's also a record about anxiety and death. We really struggled up to that point to feel like what we were doing was working. ![]() So Jealous and The Con were the point of no return: We were either going to make it, or we were gonna have to just stop. What about The Con makes you want to revisit it?Įmotionally, it's a really intense and delicate record. But it feels really real and emotional, so it's hard to be embarrassed by it. There are times when I'm literally playing two different keyboards and shaker and singing and I'm on stage monitor, so I'm yelling, and I'm not always in key. I look back and I cringe because it sounds so raw. Is there anything from 10 years ago that makes you cringe? I listened to the stems, and, for whatever reason, seeing my hands moving, I'm like, "Oh yeah! That's what I used to do." The last five years we've been in such a different space-the pop production world-and everything is a lot cleaner. It's the easiest way to recall what I used to do. Related: The curious rise of the album anniversary tour You've been watching old videos of yourself? Good! I'm, like, blowing the dust off my brain and trying to remember what I used to play 10 years ago, so I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos, and I'm like, "Wow! I used to sing and play shaker at the same time. ![]() ![]() How are the rehearsals for your Con tour going? The release will benefit the duo's newly launched foundation in support of LGBTQ girls and women. The duo is celebrating the angsty classic's milestone birthday this fall with an intimate tour-they'll play the entire album in new arrangements-as well as a covers record, featuring interpretations of Con songs by artists like Ryan Adams (a ragged take on "Back in Your Head") and Mykki Bianco (a trippy version of "Knife Going In"). "It's not a feel-good record," Tegan Quin says, which makes it all the more compelling to revisit it a decade later with her bandmate sister, Sara. The beloved Canadian twins were 26 when they released their fifth album, The Con (2007), a dark, musically knotty exorcism of grief and failed relationships. Tegan and Sara's fall tour is a bit like that. Imagine reliving the most emotionally devastating experiences of your 20s in front of 3,000 people every night.
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