Don’t Rush

Don’t Rush is the title of the second track off Tegan and Sara’s new album, Sainthood. Tomorrow night we’re seeing Tegan and Sara for the first time since the record came out and I’m quite excited about the show.

It’s taken me a good long while to get into Sainthood and it’s finally starting to click with me. I expect that after tomorrow night’s show it’ll be the only thing I listen to during the next week. For some reason it’s always taken me a length of time to get into any of Tegan and Sara’s albums.

Back when their third album, If It Was You, came out I bought it on a whim at A&B Sound. The band was already familiar to me and I’d been meaning to check them out ever since they had toured with Neil Young following their signing with his Vapor Records label in the late 90’s. Tegan and Sara would do shows in Edmonton and I kept missing them despite having a show flyer taped up on the fridge for quite some time. When I finally listened to If It Was You I found I liked the “hit” songs but didn’t get into the rest of the album.

Shortly after I’d shelved If It Was You I caught Tegan and Sara on a local TV show doing a couple of their songs and was quite impressed with how good they were live. Ever since then I kept thinking I should go see them, especially since they were playing smaller, more intimate venues like Richards on Richards.

I still didn’t go see a Tegan and Sara show despite everything in the universe pointing me towards them. When The Con came out in 2007 I kept hearing it on Australia’s Triple J radio and again swore that I would get off my ass and see them play live since their music was obviously awesome. I went down to the Sasquatch music festival in the summer 0f 2008 and discovered that as I thought, Tegan and Sara were fantastic on stage! I kicked myself for not going to see them sooner when I had so many chances. After that show I was introduced to the So Jealous album by Amanda, who is also a big Tegan and Sara fan. This has since become one of my favorite albums.

So now I find myself again listening to their new album and it’s slowly growing on me. On first listen I didn’t like it at all, probably because it sounded so much different than their So Jealous-era sound. But with a few more listens I’m starting to warm up to it and like I said earlier, after tomorrow night’s show I’m probably going to be telling everyone who will listen that this is the best album to come out in 2009. The song title, Don’t Rush, seems to exemplify how I approach this band and their music.

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