Tegan and Sara no longer Town Hall Virgins
The Con, Tegan and Sara’s 2007 album, is an incredibly difficult act to follow. It is what Tegan and Sara call one of the most depressing albums they have ever made, and what Tegan and Sara fans call one of their favorite albums of all time. Sainthood does a fine job in following The Con, because it takes us back to why we fell in love with the band in the first place. Their angst to find love and meaning in life hits us straight in the chest. Is this progression, using the old as new again? Who the fuck cares, the album rocks. No one can beat the twins knack for making albums that are impossibly catchy, and incredibly clever. Sainthood gives us exactly what we want, and that is more Tegan and more Sara.
Just days after releasing their 7th album, Tegan and Sara took the stage for two nights at NYC’s Town Hall. The place was buzzing with loyal fans drooling for the twins witty banter and rocked out live show. Opening with “The Con”, “Walking with a Ghost”, and “I bet it Stung” set as the bait to reel us in for new tracks off Sainthood. In fact the band played the entire album, Tegan jokingly explained, ”I feel like its self indulgent to play all new songs and you are probably like I came here to hear the hits! Well heres the thing, it’s not about you.”
Tegan and Sara showed up in top form, complete with banter about “fancy New Yorkers that get their plaid shirts dry-cleaned,” Sara’s thoughts on Armageddon and how she is most likely not built to survive such a thing, calling on one lucky lady named Lilian to “keep an eye out” for unruly members of the crowd, and Tegan’s disclosing a “secret” that she doesnt remember the 2nd word in the last verse “Northshore.” To break up the “Sainthood set” Tegan and Sara played some of my all time favorites off of, The Con, “Like O Like H,” “Nineteen,” and “Soil, Soil.”
After almost 2 hours of song after song, the twins closed down their show with “Where does the Good Go?” and “Call it Off.” Over all I’d say the concert was (once again) one of the best live shows I have ever seen, I think one of my fellow concert goers sumed up the feeling for all of us best when she yelled out, “do me!”
