Heartthrob by Tegan and Sara

Heartthrob, the seventh studio album from Calgary twins Tegan and Sara Quin, arrived on January 29, 2013, on Neil Young's Vapor Records through Warner Bros., and it's the one where the duo stopped murmuring in the indie corner and started shouting from the rooftops. After Sainthood, they handed the controls to producer Greg Kurstin, and the result trades much of the old guitar clatter for glossy, synth-heavy pop with choruses built for the back row. "Closer" leads the charge, a sugar rush of a single.

The gamble paid off. Heartthrob debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 49,000 copies sold in its first week, the highest they had ever climbed, became their first record to chart in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand, and went Gold in Canada that July.

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