But the material on Heartthrob is very much a collaboration of sounds and sensibilities, and these women are united in expressing the joys and the agony - the often luxurious, languid agony - that anyone who has been in love can identify with. In the past, it was frequently possible to distinguish between the songs each wrote - Tegan's were often tempestuous and fulsome, Sara's more poppy. It celebrates a one-on-one intimacy that extends to the way this duo is reaching out to what it hopes will be a larger audience.Īs openly gay women who've never made their sexuality or their sexual politics the subject of their material, Tegan and Sara have always created romantic music about falling in love and living through relationships both good and bad. 'Closer' is indeed a song about getting closer, emotionally and physically.

The sisters' voices entwine to sing the catchy chorus with a soaring quality that would be airy and light were the words not so earthy and carnal. 'Closer,' the first single from Tegan and Sara's new album Heartthrob, pulses with an urgency that's propelled by the synthesizer keyboards of one of the album's producers, Greg Kurstin.

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