So honestly, for me, making this list was actually really easy. “But I do find that, over the last 10 years, a lot of press promotion has progressively become about making playlists for people. “Sara and I are not really list people,” says Tegan at the beginning of our chat.
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At least one pivotal song here ("Today" by Smashing Pumpkins) appears prominently in the TV adaptation, at the start of episode three. Scanning the twins' Nine Songs list – four each, and one we asked them to choose together – the first thing to notice is that most were released in 1993 or 1994, when they were in what UK schools call Year 9, a time that predates but strongly influences the years covered by their memoir. It’s been a big week for the twins, with the Clea DuVall-created TV adaptation of their memoir debuting on Amazon Freevee a few days earlier, bringing the past few years of nostalgising to a heartwarming close just before the arrival of Crybaby, and they're feeling good. When Best Fit sits down with them over Zoom – first Tegan and then Sara, since they prefer to be interviewed separately – they’re in LA rehearsing for a month-long North American tour. Intentionally loose, it’s an album designed to come to life on stage, to allow a bit more spontaneity back into the Tegan and Sara experience. The result is something deliberately scrappier than anything they’ve released in the past 10 years, roughing up what remains of their leftfield pop ambitions with some surprising sonic curveballs. It also marks the first time that the pair have collaborated intimately on every song, empowered to give each other honest feedback where before they might have softened their stance. Financed themselves after leaving both their long-time management and major-label backers during the pandemic, it marks the twins’ first properly indie release in more than 20 years. Released last month, their tenth album Crybaby is as generous and open as ever. Figuratively, in the scores of songs they’ve recorded to date, and literally, in the case of their 2019 memoir High School, which featured a mirror-like cover. Just as importantly, they’ve always wanted their audience to feel seen. It’s a path that the twins have been following since their high school days in Calgary, when they wrote their first songs on an old acoustic guitar belonging to their mother’s boyfriend.
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