Meanwhile, songs like Stop Desire and BWU, are full of energy, making them the ideal upbeat pop tracks for summer and I can imagine they would be brilliant to experience live. Likewise, the line: “I’m dying to know, is the one you ended up with everything you wanted?” from Dying To Know has been spinning round my brain for days, in part because it’s catchy but also because it’s so prominent. “Call me up like you want your best friend, Turn me on like you want your boyfriend, But I don’t want to be your Secret anymore.”īy bringing this often unheard perspective into mainstream music, Tegan And Sara are doing more than simply opening the world’s eyes, they are producing genuinely good music. Tegan and Sara are known LGBT activists and this comes across most strongly in their lead single Boyfriend. The album also links deeply with their personal beliefs. My worries were pointless – Love You To Death offers 10 entertaining songs which are all meaningful and sonically cohesive. Pre-released singles Boyfriend and 100x were impressive, but U-Turn was a little average and by Stop Desire I was enjoying what I’d heard, but was equally concerned that this album would have amazing singles, followed by average filler-tracks. On first listen Love You To Death didn’t rock my world. Other than Heartthrob’s singles, I found myself tuning out of the rest of the album and so, when I heard about Love You To Death, I was hoping Tegan and Sara would have solidified their move into this style and created more than a few songs that would appeal to me. The Canadian duo’s last album Heartthrob was a huge jump from their previous indie vibe to electronic-pop and it didn’t move me. With seven LPs to their names already, Tegan and Sara Quin know exactly what they’re doing when it comes to song-writing. AudioQuest DragonFly : USB Digital to Analog Converter, up to 96kHz/24-bit.Tegan And Sara - Love You To Death by Jessikah Hope Stenson June 3, 2016.Meridian Explorer : USB Digital to Analog Converter, up to 192kHz/24-bit.JRiver : plays both AIFF and FLAC formats, $50 but has a free trial period.Audirvana : plays both AIFF and FLAC formats, $50 but has a free trial period.iTunes : plays AIFF, it's free and you probably have it already!.You may need additional software / hardware to take full advantage of the higher 24-bit high-res audio formats, but any music lover that has heard 16-bit vs 24-bit will tell you it's worth it! Software for Mac OS X ProStudioMasters offers the original studio masters - exactly as the artist, producers and sound engineers mastered them - for download, directly to you. When you listen to music on a CD or tracks purchased via consumer services such as iTunes, you are hearing a low-resolution version of what was actually recorded and mastered in the studio. High-resolution audio offers the highest-fidelity available, far surpassing the sound quality of traditional CDs. But this idea, you know, that we've all been in that situation where we really like someone and we want to make it official, and they're not ready, that's what the song is about." Obviously, being gay, there's sort of a bit of a gender twist in the song, and I get that that sometimes doesn't seem immediately relatable to everybody, whether they're straight or whatever. It was preceded by the lead single "Boyfriend", which details a love triangle that Sara Quin found herself in with a woman who not only hadn't dated another girl before, but was still seeing another man: Spin Love You to Death is the eighth studio album by Canadian indie pop duo Tegan and Sara released on Neil Young's label Vapor Records through Warner Bros. "All over their eighth album, the Quins continue to demonstrate what makes them such fine songwriters." At their best, they boil love songs down to their aching essence." "After going synth-pop on 2013's Heartthrob, Tegan and Sara team up once again with super-producer Greg Kurstin for the follow up.
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