Rather than just releasing them in a shiny, multi-disc package sure to be mined for gems and discarded, they did something different: they took the songs, gently massaged them – “With only minor tweaks to lyrics and structure, we tried to remain true to the original essence of each song,” explained Sara in the album’s announcement – and re-recorded them entirely. The story goes that when writing High School, their memoir of teenage angst, rebellion, and acid (and Kurt Cobain) worship, the sisters unearthed a treasure trove of boombox-recorded demos the two had put together in their most primitive states that had gone untouched since their adolescence as burgeoning songwriters and guitar players.
Their latest album, Hey, I’m Just Like You, is the proof in the pudding that they’ve always had hooks in their blood. It’s no wonder they created one of the most infectious movie songs of all time. It’s all about the hooks, one of the duo’s perennial strong suits.
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If you go from their 2004 widespread breakthrough So Jealous straight to their shift into shimmer-pop stars with 2016’s Heartthrob, it seems like a gigantic jump, but it always made sense that they’d get there someday, if you knew how to look.
Not in a cataclysmic pattern of frequent upheaval, but in slow, subtly noticeable ways where you could clearly chart a logical progress from album to album. Over two decades, from their beginnings as a divisive young duo in the Calgary music scene to grunge-folk icons, pop hitmakers, beloved queer icons and everything in between, the most constant element for Teagan & Sara has been change.
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