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- Summary: The Canadian twins' latest album features members of Death Cab for Cutie and AFI.
- Record Label: Sire/London/Rhino
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 25
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Mixed: 1 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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Lyrical wallowing is almost a required element for this genre, and ultimately even The Con's failings work in its favor, providing a macro version of what the best Tegan And Sara songs do, by stumbling along recklessly, then falling together.
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The Con is a startlingly dark, yet characteristically vibrant offering, featuring a band that’s learned to harness the energy-highs, while tempering pretty (even pastoral) pop-folk with a new, deeply-affecting brand of melancholy.
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MojoThe Con rockets beyond even their own high standards. [Mar 2008, p.103]
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In general, the songs are indeed kept simple. The album is not absent of synths and effects, but it never relies on mere production alone. The excitement of The Con comes, instead of from loops and distortion, from earnest emotion and the versatile voices of the Quin sisters.
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BlenderThey might sound like Girl Scouts, but these are tough cookies. [Aug 2007, p.117]
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Their vocals throughout the entire album are fantastic and they work together only like sisters could, even if they live across one of the largest countries in the world.
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A saddening case of brick production, paper soul--here the Quins are little more than twin airbags.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 34 out of 39
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Mixed: 2 out of 39
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Negative: 3 out of 39
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JanieS.Jan 20, 2008Exquisite. Perfect peaks and valleys, a joy to listen to, blah blah blah glowing review blah.
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RiccardoPAug 6, 2007
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EmDAug 6, 2007
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AlekTAug 4, 2007
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BorisR.Feb 6, 2008I own all 4 Tegan and Sara Albums, and this one is still good, yet none have ever been to par with the first, i believe.
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boiledpAug 11, 2007Not as consistently catchy as So Jealous, but weird and wonderful.
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JamesOct 2, 2007Awful music. I agree with Pitchfork this is crap tampon rock with turds for lyrics.
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