Tegan and Sara's new album, based on the first songs they ever
wrote. Hey, I’m Just Like You – their ninth studio album
overall and first since 2016, Out September 27, 2019.
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HEY,
I’M JUST LIKE YOU,
TEGAN AND SARA'S NINTH STUDIO ALBUM,
SET FOR SEPTEMBER 27 RELEASE ON SIRE
High School, Tegan
And Sara’s First Memoir,
To Be Published On September 24 By MCD X FSG (USA)
Tegan And Sara Reimagine and Reinvent Their Earliest Songs,
Discovered While Writing High School
– View Album Trailer HERE
“This is the record we never could have made as teenagers,
full of songs we never could have written as adults.”
– Tegan and Sara
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 – their ninth studio album
overall and first since 2016’s Love You to Death – will
be released on September 27 on Sire. Fans can pre-save the album
now HERE.
The album was inspired by a find Tegan and Sara made
while they were writing their first memoir, High School,
which will be published by MCD X FSG (USA) on September 24,
three days before the album arrives.
“While working on our memoir, we discovered lost cassette tapes
that had been unheard for over 20 years,” recalls Tegan. “They
contained dozens of our first songs, written between the ages
of 15 and 17…we immediately recognized the songs as an essential
part of our high school story.”
Photo Credit: Trevor Brady
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. Watch the
album trailer HERE.
Tegan
and Sara -Hey, I'm Just Like You - New Album
Announce
“With only minor tweaks to lyrics and structure, we tried to
remain true to the original essence of each song,” says Sara.
Hey, I’m Just Like You is a full collaboration
between the twin sisters. In some cases, Sara sings songs that
Tegan wrote, while on others, Tegan gives voice to Sara’s melodies
and lyrics. It is also the first Tegan and Sara album
created with a team of all women, which included producer Alex
Hope (Troye Sivan, Broods); Rachael Findlen (engineer); Beatriz
Artola (mixing); Emily Lazar (mastering); Annie Kennedy (assistant
engineer); Carla Azar (drums) and Catherine Hiltz (bass).
Tegan and Sara agree, “This is the record we never could
have made as teenagers, full of songs we never could have written
as adults.”
Together the memoir and album will tell the origin story of
Tegan and Sara for the first time, bringing unprecedented
depth and dimension to their formative years. Tegan and Sara
will tour extensively behind both. Dates and further details
will be announced soon.
About
High School
Named a most anticipated book of fall by O, the Oprah
Magazine, Publishers Weekly, and Entertainment Weekly,
High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age
story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary,
Alberta, who grew up at the height of grunge and rave culture
in the nineties, well before they became the celebrated musicians
and global LGBTQ icons we know today. While grappling with their
identity and sexuality, often alone, they also faced academic
meltdown, their parents’ divorce, and the looming pressure of
what might come after high school. Written in alternating chapters
from both Tegan's and Sara’s points of view, the book is a raw
account of the drugs, alcohol, love, music, and friendship they
explored in their formative years. A transcendent story of first
loves and first songs, High School captures the tangle
of discordant and parallel memories of two sisters who grew
up in distinct ways even as they lived just down the hall from
each another.
About Tegan and Sara
Tegan and Sara have sold well over one million records and performed
on some of the world’s biggest stages, from Coachella to the
Academy Awards. They have received three Juno Awards, a GRAMMY®
nomination, a Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, and
the 2018 New York Civil Liberties Union Award. In 2016, they
created the Tegan and Sara Foundation, which fights for health,
economic justice, and representation for LGBTQ girls and women.
Learn more about the Tegan and Sara Foundation HERE.
Tegan and Sara performed at the 2019 LOVELOUD Festival, a Utah
music festival benefiting local and national LGBTQ charities.
Tegan serves on the board of LOVELOUD Foundation, which was
founded by Imagine Dragons front man Dan Reynolds.