The Con (studio album)
by Tegan And Sara

The Con by Tegan And Sara
Year: 2007
Release date: 2007-07-24
Overall rank: 2,324th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 121 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2007 (38th)
Award Top albums of the 2000s (384th)
Award Best albums of all time (2,324th)

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The Con track list

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 121 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 4% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.5/100, a mean average of 76.4/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.1.

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85/100
From 04/29/2019 23:31
Perhaps the album where it was finally clear who was Tegan and who was Sara. The heart on it's sleeve indie-rock rush contrasting with the more tightly-coiled and layered introspective electro-coustic numbers makes for a somewhat schizophrenic pop album, but multiple listens realizes that it's the album's strength, not it's weakness.
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From 07/24/2015 21:02
Strong performance. Tegan and Sara are always good.
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From 07/11/2013 02:38
This album hits me to the core of my soul. Just awesome!
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From 08/19/2012 06:03
One of 2007's best surprises. A strange, beguiling experience where the Quinn sisters became a schrizophenic whole, moving from pretty direct songwriting to darker, challenging, less immediately conclusive tunes
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From 07/16/2012 14:20
They added a lot of new wave and volume to "so jealous" that wasn't there on "if it was you", but the hooks were slightly lost in the process. "The Con" represents the best of their last 2 albums, with all the quick-to-the-point hooks of "if it was you" and the attitude and energy of "so jealous" melded in one. No second is wasted to dawdle. Every minute is an energetic ode to the forlorn and sexually repressed (woman).
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From 06/19/2012 00:08
Their most consistant album.
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