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Teenage Fanclub have always been a band you can rely on for big harmonies, big tunes and songs that evoke the radiant joy of The Byrds or Big Star. Long-term fans may approach this 10th album with some trepidation after the departure of founding member and bassist Gerry Love in 2018 but the indie veterans from Belshill, on the outskirts of Glasgow, have long been masters at giving their crowd what they need at the same time as subtly exploring new territory. To that end, Endless Arcade chimes and jangles much as you would both want and expect. As on 2010’s Shadows and 2016’s Here, there is no shortage of joyously familiar fare: Warm Embrace’s close harmonies sound like they’ve been beamed in from the summer of 1965, as do the groovy double-time handclaps of Everything Is Falling Apart.