TEGAN AND SARA - Love You To Death LP (Clear & White Vinyl)

Label: Warner

Fourteen years on from their debut, with the release of 2013’s Heartthrob, they transitioned with apparent ease from the kind of artists who collaborated with the guy from Death Cab for Cutie and had their songs covered by Jack White to the kind of artists who appear on stage with Katy Perry: the album has been by some distance the biggest hit of their career.

Accordingly, Heartthrob’s follow-up Love You to Death crackles with an unmistakable confidence and poise. In an age when pop albums have a tendency to sprawl, the better to hedge their bets and offer up something for everybody. The choruses soar, the hooks reel you in, and it feels appealingly like the work of people who know exactly what they want to achieve and how to go about it.

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. Listening to Love You to Death, it’s certainly not impossible to imagine how far their newfound success might go.