Sara Quin - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Tegan Quin - Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Bio...
Eighteen-year-old guitar-playing twins from Calgary, Sara and Tegan Quin are best described as.a beautiful clash of night and day intertwined. They have shared many of the same experiences, yet from different points of view. With an uncapturable amount of emotion and collectively outstanding ideas of the world, the Quins have always possessed a means to argue, ensure, release,create and rivet audiences even before they involved music.
Sara and Tegans music started at the age of eight playing piano, which progressed to two short-lived punk/rock bands playing mainly at parties. All of these variations in music were a part of the journey leading up to the day they began messing around with one of their Dads acoustic guitars.
Their success in a local music contest in the spring of 98 brought the girls into the public eye and they began to play around Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto. The invites soon came to guest with such acts as Hayden, Juliana Hatfield, Veda Hille, Kinnie Starr, Oh Susanna, Tribe 8, Painting Daises and 54-40.
In turn, the Twins began the recording process, eventually teaming up with album engineer, mixer and co-producer Jared Kuemper. Recorded in Calgary this past spring, Under Feet Like Ours is an intelligent, uplifting and remarkably mature collection of songs, with both Sara and Tegan sharing lead vocals. Augmented by the drums of Aaron Burke and the programming of Kristian Alexandrov, Jared and the Twins have produced a wonderful sounding record.
Sara and Tegan talk about Under Feet Like Ours...
Starting the album with clips of ourselves at age four being obnoxious and pushy right from the start, you get a good idea of what is to come. The album starts with a fairly new song, Divided, telling the trials and tribulations that twins face when separating and taking on individual lives apart from one another, a suggestion made by our therapist! The next song, Our Trees, is a way for us to show the world that we too would love to pretend that we care about the environment and that the trees are just like you and me. After this political statement, Come On is a good reflection of the anger and the power that lines our lives. Freedom and Proud are both songs reflecting the way that both of us sometimes view the world. These songs are a reminder that we have strength to believe and stand behind everything we are and to create no matter what it costs us. Next we have a very full arrangement on More for Me, a song all about TeganŐs short lived coffee shop job and the repression she encountered. This was a fun one! We then have Hype-- all about whatever it is that Sara thought was on her mind that day. The piano song, Clever Meals, is about being the real you (seems to be a theme!). The strong love song Heavy leads into the quiet number Welcome Home, backed with a sad cello to reinforce what it is like to have everyone you know leave and then whine cause they are not at home with you. The album draws to a close with the industry driven, hip hop-flavored, Superstar, all about inspiration, education and inflation. Then an obnoxious Sara and Tegan at age four say good-bye...
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