Tegan and Sara won’t serve up Heartthrob, their amazingly titled seventh album, until January, but for benefit of impatient fans far and wide the Canadian twin-sister duo has come across with the first single, “Closer.”

“Although I do imagine that [‘Closer’] would be an okay song to make out to,” Tegan Quin tells Rolling Stone, “all I intended was to write something sweet that reminded the listener of a time before sex, complicated relationships, drama, and heartbreak.”

I don’t know that a lyric like, “All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me,” is all that innocent, but maybe our neighbors to the north approach matters differently.

To create this driving bit of synthpop, Tegan and Sara teamed up with hitmaker/producer Greg Kurstin (Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Sky Ferreira). The song’s dreamy middle eight sparkles like a notebook decorated with glitter-pen doodles of names and hearts.

While “Closer” is (mostly) pure schoolgirl fun, the choice of the Futura font in the song’s colorful lyric video strikes an oddly serious note:

Though the dance-pop direction of “Closer” isn’t typical of Tegan and Sara’s previous output, it’s not entirely untraveled territory either, considering the twins’ collaborations with Tiësto, Morgan Page, and most recently, David Guetta. It’s a sound that suits the Quins quite well.

Purchase Tegan and Sara – “Closer” via iTunes.