Favorite Music of 2009, Pt. 8: Tegan & Sara – Sainthood

Lots of bands seem to be returning to an 80s aesthetic: booming drum tracks, analog synth lines, reverb, reverb, reverb. But nothing I heard last year recalled the decade of excess like Sainthood. Tegan & Sara, rather than simply using the production techniques of two decades ago, distilled an essence of early 80s rock that [...]