Tegan and Sara release "I Love Christmas" and "A December To Remember", produced by Kate Cooper
Tegan says the songs started as material written for a project tied to the duo's 2024 graphic novel Crush before being reworked into holiday tracks.
Tegan and Sara have put out two holiday songs at once: "I Love Christmas" and "A December To Remember". Both follow the duo's recent single "Our Year" and were produced by An Horse's Kate Cooper.
According to Tegan, the tracks began as songs written with Cooper for a project connected to Crush, the graphic novel the duo released in 2024. Those recordings were never put out. After finishing her new middle grade book, Merry Christmess, she went back to a couple of them and decided to turn them into Christmas songs.
Tegan also spoke about her own relationship with the holiday, calling herself a Christmas fanatic. She says she keeps three Christmas trees, watches a Christmas movie every day in December and listens only to Christmas music during the month. She added that she prefers the anticipation to the day itself and usually ends up feeling low by Christmas afternoon.
On the sessions, Tegan said the Australian engineer working on the songs initially admitted she hated Christmas music, then changed her mind midway through vocal tracking and started calling her "Tegan Turner". The duo frames the release as music for people who love the holiday and for those who don't.
On the live front, Tegan and Sara have November 2027 dates lined up with Hilary Duff, including stops in San Antonio, Fort Worth, Tulsa, Omaha, Milwaukee, Des Moines, Kansas City and Denver, plus two nights at the Honda Center in Anaheim.
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