In August of 2021, they booked studio time in Seattle with producer John Congleton, whose previous works include albums they love by Sharon Van Etten, Angel Olsen and Future Islands. “They felt very new and fresh and really different from anything we’d been doing,” she says. I started fooling around with a very simple sampling app called Keezy, using it to make all sorts of vocal samples, and that’s how those songs began.” Tegan remembers Sara sending her those demos and instantly feeling inspired by them.
TEGAN AND SARAH ALBUMS HOW TO
When the pandemic started, I would go to my little studio and mess around – not really thinking about making an album for Tegan and Sara, just thinking about how to get through the day and not collapse under stress and anxiety about the pandemic. I’ll make these instrumentals with vocal ad libs, and I’m basically always working on it.
The reality is that Sara did step up greatly in her role as a producer for this exciting, elevated collection of songs, which began with her glitchy lo-fi demos for “I Can’t Grow Up” and “All I Wanted.” She says: “I’ve been joking about making ‘my bedroom electronic record’ for the last twenty years. I’m the house-flipper of the Tegan and Sara band.” “It wasn’t even just that Sara was making lyric changes or reorganizing the parts to my songs, it was that she was also saying to me, ‘This song is going to be faster,’ or ‘It’s going to be in a different key.’ But Sara effectively improves everything of mine that she works on.” Sara adds, with a laugh: “Maybe I am the renovator. “This was the first time where, while we were still drafting our demos, we were thinking about how the songs were going to work together,” says Tegan. For their tenth studio album, Crybaby, they got inside each other’s songs in a whole new way. Tegan and Sara are still evolving the way they collaborate, even twenty years into recording together and twenty more as twin sisters.
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