REVIEW: teganandsara's ‘Crybaby’ is a wild ride. Read our review of the Canadian indie-pop duo’s new album.
, the Clea DuVall-created TV show based on their joint memoir of the same name, debuted on Amazon FreeVee earlier this month, and their LGBTQ activism has included a foundation, a covers album saluting their 2007 smashBut music has always been at the center of their partnership, and on their tenth album that core has been changed up a bit — they’re on a new label, working with new management, and collaborating with a new producer, John Congleton.
Perhaps appropriately,explodes all preconceived notions about the Tegan & Sara sound from jump: “I Can’t Grow Up” opens with distorted vocals and firework synths — as well as a frenetic beat that’s the pace for the rest of the track, which feels like an uneasily exhilarating race to the finish between the vocals and the bassline; the lyrics, which wrestle with passion and how it meshes with ideas of “maturity” and self-doubt, only heighten the intensity.is a wild ride, with Tegan and Sara’s voices twinning and uncoupling on songs that vibrate with feeling while having the kind of lightness that comes with wrapping up larger-than-life sentiments in glittering pop gems. The title has an irony to it; there’s a grappling with the big emotions that come with getting older on songs like the galloping “Fucking Up What Matters,” which spins out of a drum-and-bass-inspired beat into a thrumming synthpop cut, and the hyperattenuated “Under My Control,” which turns the common resolution-time refrain “I should start working on myself again” into a pop confection underscored by wariness about what internal excavation might entail.
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