Music / rock

Hey, I'm just like you


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Summary: Twenty years into their career, Tegan and Sara have recorded a new album that is based on the first songs they ever wrote. Hey, I'm Just Like You is a return to Tegan and Sara's rock and punk roots, with a punch of pop production. Recorded in Vancouver, Canada in April and May 2019, the album recasts the remarkable innate songwriting talents both possessed as teenagers, and allows these previously unreleased songs to benefit from the studio expertise they have gained in the past two decades a period that has seen them release eight studio albums, earning seven Gold certifications and one Double Platinum certification in the process. Defiant and melodramatic, the songs capture the exultation and grief of first loves, first losses, ecstatic kiss-offs, and psychedelic tributes to friendship.

Reviews (2)


Pitchfork

d. 27. Sep. 2019

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Aimee Cliff

d. 27. Sep. 2019

"On their ninth album, the twins revisit their roots, re-recording demos they wrote as teenagers and polishing them into poignant synth-pop gems".


The observer

d. 29. Sep. 2019

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Michael Cragg

d. 29. Sep. 2019

"On their ninth album - a companion piece to their memoir, High School - they look back to move forward, with 12 songs reworked from demos they originally wrote when they were teenagers. The result is a clear-headed amalgamation of their two eras, veering from stomping emo (opener Hold My Breath Until I Die; I'll Be Back Someday's Avril-isms) to sleek, synth-led pop (the pogoing You Go Away and I Don't Mind). As they've highlighted, these are songs they couldn't write now, and there's a gloriously naive emotional familiarity throughout, from Please Help Me's worried gaze into the future ("what if I don't feel like I belong?"), to I'll Be Back Someday's coiled spring of teenage frustration. It's a fascinating conceit; a remodelled past for a clearer future".