Tegan and Sara have returned with the new single "Fucking Up What Matters," along with the announcement that they've signed to Mom+Pop Music. The single, co-produced with John Congleton, is the first look at their upcoming tenth album, and is accompanied by a Tony Wolski–directed video that features Railey and Seazynn Gilliland, who play Tegan and Sara Quinn in the Amazon series High School based on the Quinns' memoir of the same name.
“'Fucking Up What Matters' felt like an ode to the moment in your life when you realize that you have most, if not all, of the things you wanted and you start to think about what would happen if you just walked away from it all," Tegan said of the single. "It's the moment in the middle of the night when you start to daydream about something else, something you never imagined. It's the feeling you have when you think you might have hit a new low, and yet you've never felt so good. Sometimes it's admitting that you can't stop yourself from fucking up what matters, that you feel your strongest. And as my mom would say, it's often when we're fucking up what matters, that we're learning the most about ourselves."
Tegan and Sara Quinn were signed to Sire/Warner in 2006 by Micheal Goldstone. The move to Mom+Pop marks a new chapter in their career after a stint with Warner. “We had just made The Con and felt like the vision Goldie and the team at Sire had for us and the album were a good fit," Tegan added. "But soon after [Goldstone] signed us, he left to start Mom+Pop. We never held it against him. But joked that one day we'd work together for real. So it was with great enthusiasm that we agreed to sign to Mom+Pop when our deal with Warner ended in 2021. We look forward to being back at an indie label, on a brilliant roster, with Goldie and the label’s incredible team helping us start this next chapter in our lives with the release of our tenth album.”
Watch the video for "Fucking Up What Matters" below.
