Canadian duo Tegan and Sara have announced their new album, inspired by demo tapes recorded in adolescence, will be out this fall.
Hey, I’m Just Like You will be released Sept. 27 and is built off two cassette tapes containing dozens of songs the pair wrote while attending high school in Calgary during the 1990s.
The tapes were recently uncovered while the pair sifted through high school memorabilia while writing their memoir High School, due out on Sept. 24.
“Defiant and melodramatic, the songs captured the exultation and grief of first loves, first losses, ecstatic kiss-offs, and psychedelic tributes to the friendships we had as teenagers,” they wrote in an Instagram post.
“It had been over twenty years since we had heard the songs and quite honestly, we both expected to listen once, cringe, and bury them for another couple decades.
“But they were good. Like, really good.”
Tegan and Sara, the former of which lives in Vancouver, pulled lyrics and segments of the unearthed tracks to create the 12 songs on the new album, keeping original lyrics where possible and writing only four new sections. The pair also share vocal duties on a number of tracks.
The album was recorded this spring in Vancouver and produced by Alex Hope.
It is the first Tegan and Sara album produced, performed, engineered, mixed and mastered by an entirely female team. It is the duo’s ninth studio album.
The Juno Award-winning pair are sisters. Both are openly gay and have long advocated for gender rights.
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