Love You To Death digs even deeper into throwback electro-pop. It’s very good, but it’s also a little predictable.
The overarching feeling here is confidence – the result of a band that threw themselves off a cliff and found a net hanging just below.
If you like your pop with a bit more bite to it, then Tegan and Sara are everything you’re looking for.
Indeed, for all Tegan and Sara’s adoption by the queens of teen pop, Love You to Death feels like a distinctly grownup album, unafraid to explore nuanced, mature themes.
They’re an important band with voices that deserve to be heard, and Love You To Death might well be the album that lifts them into the pop stratosphere.
If Heartthrob was a test to see if T&S could fill stadiums and hold their own against Taylor Swift or Katy Perry, then Love You to Death considers it passed with flying colors.
Their honesty and intelligence shine through at all times, and they take the sublime parts of the modern pop landscape, while giving no time to the ridiculous. Like Heartthrob, this is pop music that is all heart all the time, and for that, the sisters deserve every accolade that comes their way.
Love You To Death is an album full of intelligent, sensitive pop songs, and at a time when the watermark for such music is pretty high anyway, it really does stand out from the crowd.
At their best, they boil down love songs to their purest, aching essence, capturing complicated emotions in economical, less-is-more lyrical strokes.
The record does play a bit like a return trip through familiar terrain, but for the most part, Love You to Death finds Tegan and Sara offering another solid soundtrack for summer romances and road-trips alike.
Despite these obligatory comparisons to their 2013 effort, though, Love You to Death is ultimately its own beast, one that finds Tegan and Sara working effectively with confessional songwriting and further developing their enthusiasm for synthpop’s visceral pleasures.
This should be a home run: fist-pumping lyrics sung with their distinctive call-and-response harmonies, hit-machine bridges‘n’breakdowns, the works. But Tegan and Sara colour inside the lines a little too much for their latest to really zing.
When they stop aiming for catchiness and instead get real about relationships, LYTD sparkles.
Love You's sticky problem is the same one that plagues all but the Thriller/Purple Rain-iest of pop records, and it's that everything that comes between the hits sounds like filler in comparison.
This feels like an extra set of tracks to "Heartthrob" in a way. It has the same style which I love, and it is almost just as good as their previous work. The production here is amazing and I like the vocals too. Everything is well put together and the pacing is great. Very upbeat and cheerful album which I love.
And yeah, wow, the fact they can sound this consistent 8 albums into their music career is quite impressive. This is a really solid album, but I did like their previous ... read more
El pop de masas debe escribirse así. Directo, fugaz, en ocasiones algo refinado. Buen LP.
Looking back, I think this is one of my favorite albums as a whole. All of the tracks are extremely good, and work together in a way I can't really explain. This was my first exposure to Tegan and Sara, and really this style of music, and I continue to enjoy it to this day. Hope to get this on vinyl one day, and to hear what the duo come up with next!
This feels like an extra set of tracks to "Heartthrob" in a way. It has the same style which I love, and it is almost just as good as their previous work. The production here is amazing and I like the vocals too. Everything is well put together and the pacing is great. Very upbeat and cheerful album which I love.
And yeah, wow, the fact they can sound this consistent 8 albums into their music career is quite impressive. This is a really solid album, but I did like their previous ... read more
1 | That Girl 2:44 | 46 |
2 | Faint of Heart 2:54 | 56 |
3 | Boyfriend 2:47 | 87 |
4 | Dying to Know 3:37 | 64 |
5 | Stop Desire 3:17 | 100 |
6 | White Knuckles 3:18 | 64 |
7 | 100x 3:02 | 54 |
8 | BWU 3:21 | 70 |
9 | U-Turn 2:58 | 73 |
10 | Hang on to the Night 3:29 | 86 |
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#15 | / | Dork |
#18 | / | NME |
#19 | / | Diffuser |
#20 | / | Digital Spy |
#27 | / | Consequence of Sound |
#28 | / | Paste |
#35 | / | The Guardian |
#38 | / | FasterLouder |