The Con X: Covers vinyl, CD, and digital/ streaming album is available now. Tegan and Sara will spend this fall touring what they call 'The Con X,' an acoustic reimagining of their landmark record.

We are beyond grateful for the contributions of each artist, and we hope fans of The Con will be moved by their interpretations. Somehow all these new covers manage to come together to add a new chapter to The Con. It’s a universal language that bonds people together from different worlds, countries, and experiences. Music allows us to project our own stories, losses, and anxieties onto the melodies and words of someone else. All the artists agreed to donate their time and energy to the project and their labels all agreed to waive their fees as well.Īt the core of our planning was the hope that this new project would tell another chapter in the story that was The Con. Their inspiration could come from the original record or The Con Demos, our first home recordings that were released after The Con came out.

We encouraged each artist to approach the song they were covering in any fashion they saw fit. With that intention set, we asked 14 artists who were either outspoken allies of the LGTBQ community or LGBTQ themselves to each cover a song from The Con. Pay in 4 interest-free installments for orders over 50 with. But we also wanted a companion piece that would live on past the anniversary, hence The Con X: Covers album was born.įrom day one we wanted the proceeds to go to our newly-launched Tegan and Sara Foundation, which raises money for self-identified women and girls in the LGBTQ community. Choose from Same Day Delivery, Drive Up or Order Pickup. Indisputably our most raw and intimate record, we wanted to ensure we created a new package that did justice to the layers of attachment that both we and our fans have had to The Con.Īlmost immediately we established that a tour playing all 14 songs in a more intimate and stripped-down arrangement would be special and memorable for our diehard fans. Read reviews and buy Tegan and Sara - Con (Vinyl) at Target. Important because it was the biggest leap we had made in attempting to write a cohesive group of songs that told a painful and anxious story about our different relationships to loss, death, love, compulsion, fear, letting go and moving on. Important not just because of the music or the elaborate way we approached recording it 10 years ago with Chris Walla. She is on Twitter.This past winter, as the 10th anniversary of The Con quickly approached, Sara and I started to brainstorm meaningful ways to celebrate what was easily one of our most important records. Although identical twin sisters Tegan and Sara Quin first appeared in the music scene in the late '90s playing the kind of folk-rock and folk-punk more associated with other Lilith Fair (in which they participated) artists of the time, by the time 2007 rolled around they had moved into much poppier territory. Jules LeFevre is Staff Writer at Music Junkee and inthemix. Ten years on, The Con deserves to be recognised. By dismissing the Quins as a “lesbian band” or a “female band”, the press cheapened and pigeonholed one of the best records of the decade. Reading these reviews ten years later is a sobering experience.Īt best, it’s a reminder of just how far we’ve come, and at worst, it forces the realisation that The Con never got the respect it actually deserved. NMEcalled Tegan and Sara “twin airbags” and compared them to Kelly Clarkson, while Slant compared them to Avril Lavigne. Rolling Stone went down a similar road, opening with this: “As lesbians who never reference their oppression or even their sexuality, Tegan and Sara don’t have men to lash out at, put up with or gripe about.” The publication then argues that the absence of male subject matter means that the band’s songs are “short on drama” - ludicrous sexism aside, it’s hard to believe anyone could listen to tracks like ‘Nineteen’ and accuse them of lacking dramatics. Pitchfork infamously opened their review of the album with the line: “Tegan and Sara should no longer be mistaken for tampon rock, a comparison only fair because of the company they kept.” The company they kept? Because they are lesbians? Because they’re women? Because they make music and also happen to get periods? What the fuck are you talking about? Upon its release in July, The Con definitely wasn’t immune from this treatment.

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