Let Tegan and Sara love you
The spring of my junior year of high school was the time when my musical sensibilities began to take shape. I started attending noise shows, downloading album upon album of math rock and ambient drone and exhibiting a condescending lack of interest anytime my friends tried to talk to me about music. Oh yeah, I also listened to the Tegan and Sara album “The Con” pretty much every day. For some reason, the emotionally upbeat power-pop folk played by these Canadian twin guitarists/vocalists captivated the high school me.
Even I didn’t know what I liked about Tegan and Sara’s music. By...
