Teenage Fanclub – Shadows LP NEW 180G W- MP3 Hot on Sale

Teenage Fanclub –  Shadows LP

NEW. SEALED.

180 gram vinyl, includes mp3 download of album.

Merge Records

Since 2000 s Howdy!, it seems as if Teenage Fanclub s three singer songwriters — guitarist Norman Blake, bassist Gerard Love, and guitarist Raymond McGinley — are on track to deliver a new album every five years. For longtime fans who remember the first time they heard The Concept off the band s classic 1991 album Bandwagonesque, that level of output may seem a bit stingy, but when considering TFC s consistently high-quality songwriting, no true Fannie fan is likely to complain. In that sense, Teenage Fanclub s 2010 album Shadows is a sparkling and reflective follow-up to the band s stellar 2005 effort, Man-Made. Released on the band s own Pema imprint in the U.K. — Merge in the U.S. — Shadows picks up on the introspective, world-weary quality of Man-Made but also delivers a bit of the classic bright pop the band is known for. Where Man-Made found the band struggling with feeling like life was an illusion on the dogged It s All in My Mind, here you get Love s breezy baroque pop statement of purpose Sometimes I Don t Need to Believe in Anything, with its chorus of layered synth, strings, flutes, and sundry wind instruments. Similarly, Blake s leadoff single Baby Lee is a romantic 60s-styled folk-rocker that veritably shimmers with positive vibes. Elsewhere, Love s Into the City is a sunshine pop country-rock love letter to urban days in the sun and McGinley s Today Never Ends is slow-burn psychedelic country-rock rumination on the past, the present, and a perfect day that never ends. If the day is as sun-drenched and relaxed as the songs on Shadows implies, then may it and Teenage Fanclub go on and on.