CD Review

So here’s a quick primer on Tegan &Sara if your aren‘t familiar with them - Canadian, identical twin sisters, who sing folk-indie-pop, oh, and they also happen to be lesbians. That’s a lot to digest, but once you take that all in, you realize that they make some fine music. So Jealous is their latest effort, and shows that the girls have continued to evolve their sound, which is now less Lilith Fair and more hipster-indie-pop - combining a folk aesthetic with 80s new wave. While their slightly monotone harmonies get a little irritating, repeated listens finds it more endearing then annoying.

The fourteen confessional tracks are punctuated with a theme of coming to grips with a relationship that seems to be on the rocks or had just ended. The songs are at times angry, reflective, mournful, self-loathing and any other adjective you may associate with heartbreak. On "I Know, I Know, I Know," the girls sing ‘Last night I was writing about, I know my screaming and shouting won’t keep you.’ Despite the subject matter though they somehow manage to make an album of pop songs that are upbeat and bouncy and don’t make you grab for the nearest box of Kleenex.