With Endless Arcade, the beloved Scottish band enters a brand new era Patrick King | April 30, 2021 - 12:00 pm
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SPIN caught up with Teenage Fanclub songwriter Norman Blake in February to discuss the band’s new album Endless Arcade, the world was in a much more uncertain place than it is today. Prospects on when and how live music would be coming back were still marked with doubt. But Blake, as always, radiates with positivity for the days ahead. Even as the long-running Scottish band faced its biggest shake-up.
With it being their eleventh album and first since 2016’s
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New music from Teenage Fanclub settles into the world like the first days of springâsubtly, quietly, with a sigh of relief. For fans of the long-running Scottish power-pop band, the defining qualities of their musicâchiming three-part harmonies, breezy major-key melodies, and dreamy, lovesick lyricsâhave come to feel so pleasant and familiar that measuring their current work against their past can seem a little beside the point: Could it be sunnier? Did it feel more exciting when you were younger? These concerns melt away within a few notes: Just open your windows and let it in.
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