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Reviews / / 06 · 05 · 2021
For about three decades now, Glasgow’s own Teenage Fanclub have been a dependable force in the indie pop universe. Driven forwards by three incredible songwriters, the band seemed to weather everyone that was thrown at them – from the tornado that was Creation Records onwards into the 21st century.
But change comes for us all, eventually. A shift in line up finds Teenage Fanclub embarking on subtle evolution on new album ‘Endless Arcade’, their first with Euros Childs as a full member. It’s the sound of a group locating a quiet sense of renewal, probing for fresh inspiration and – for the large part – finding it.
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There have been previous examples of popular musicians reciting famous poems but this, as far as can be determined, is the first time an iconic singer (Marianne Faithfull) has collaborated with an avant-garde composer (Warren Ellis, from Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and delivered an entire recording of 11 poems from Englandâs most famous Romantic poets â two from Lord Byron, one from Lord Tennyson, two from Percy Bysshe Shelley, one from Thomas Hood, three from John Keats and one from William Wordsworth.
And these are not esoteric poetic byways. They are the major poems of the period:
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