{"id":39487,"date":"2023-06-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-04T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39487"},"modified":"2023-06-03T06:34:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T10:34:26","slug":"teenage-fanclub-announce-new-album-nothing-lasts-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=39487","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Fanclub announce new album \u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Teenage Fanclub\u00a0have announced their new album\u00a0\u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019 out\u00a0September 22\u00a0via Merge Records\u00a0in the U.S. and on their\u00a0own label PeMa in the UK\/Europe\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/vgzx3i\/3m9fkn\/7dxz5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">pre-order<\/a>). Limited edition silver and black mix Peak Vinyl is available in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/vgzx3i\/3m9fkn\/n6xz5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Merge Records shop<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/vgzx3i\/3m9fkn\/3yyz5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Rough Trade U.S.<\/a>\u00a0will have translucent pink vinyl for purchase. To accompany the announcement the band are sharing the official video for the album&#8217;s lead single\u00a0<em>Foreign Land<\/em><strong>.<\/strong> Watch the video via YouTube below. <em>Foreign Land<\/em> is also available now on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.e2ma.net\/click\/vgzx3i\/3m9fkn\/zj0z5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">all streaming platforms<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ikCMuSHsqOU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first sound you hear is a sustained feedback note that hangs in the air with the grace of a dragonfly before an acoustic riff spirals out of it, soaring upwards. It\u2019s blissful and sun-soaked, like a late summer haze blurring out all the details on the horizon. When voices join the music, they arrive perfectly locked together, honed in on a single melody. \u201c<em>It\u2019s time to move along \/ and leave the past behind me\u2026\u201d<\/em> The message is simple. Don\u2019t look back, only forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Foreign Land<\/em>\u00a0is the opening track on Teenage Fanclub\u2019s eleventh full studio album\u00a0\u2018Nothing Lasts Foreve\u2019r. That track &#8211; and the rest of this beautifully rich and melodic album &#8211; is the sound of a season\u2019s end, of the last warm days of the year while nights begin to draw in and thoughts become reflective and more than a little melancholy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That reflection is everywhere on the record, whether on the autumnal folk rock of <em>Tired Of Being Alone<\/em> that repositions Laurel Canyon to somewhere deep in the heart of the Wye Valley, the William Blake quoting <em>Self-Sedation<\/em> or on the song that preceded\u00a0the completion of \u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019, last year\u2019s <em>I Left A Light On<\/em>, where a spark of hope is kept alight at the end of a relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the recurring themes on\u00a0\u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019\u00a0is light, as a both a metaphor for hope and as an ultimate destination further down the road. Although the band\u2019s songwriters\u00a0Norman Blake\u00a0and<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Raymond McGinley\u00a0found themselves touching on similar themes, it was pure coincidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raymond: \u201c<em>We never talk about what we\u2019re going to do before we start making a record. We don\u2019t plan much other than the nuts and bolts of where we\u2019re going to record and when. That thing about light was completely accidental; we didn\u2019t realise that until we\u2019d finished half the songs. The record feels reflective, and I think the more we do this thing, the more we become comfortable with going to that place of melancholy, feeling and expressing those feelings.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman: \u201c<em>These songs are definitely personal. You\u2019re getting older, you\u2019re going into the cupboard getting the black suit out more often. Thoughts of mortality and the idea of the light must have been playing on our minds a lot. The songs on the last record were influenced by the breakup of my marriage. It was cathartic to write those songs. These new songs are reflective of how I\u2019m feeling now, coming out of that period. They\u2019re fairly optimistic, there\u2019s an acceptance of a situation and all of the experience that comes with that acceptance. When we write, it\u2019s a reflection of our lives, which are pretty ordinary. We\u2019re not extraordinary people, and normal people get older. There\u2019s a lot to write about in the mundane. I love reading Raymond Carver. Very often there\u2019s not a lot that happens in those stories, but they speak to lived experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the vocals and the finishing touches on\u00a0\u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019\u00a0were recorded at Raymond\u2019s place in Glasgow, the music was recorded in an intense ten-day period in the bucolic Welsh countryside at Rockfield Studios, near Monmouth in late August. You can hear the effect of that environment on the record &#8211; it\u2019s full of soft breeze, wide skies, beauty and space.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raymond: \u201c<em>We like to get something out of where we go, and you can definitely hear a stamp of Rockfield on the record. We recorded our album\u00a0Howdy\u00a0there in the late \u201990s. Prior to that I\u2019d been a bit reluctant to go as everyone seemed to record there, especially if you were signed to Creation, but I thought I\u2019d go and have a look at the place. When I went down there, I loved the fact that there\u2019s no memorabilia about anyone who\u2019s ever been in the studio. The only visual musical reference is a picture of Joe Meek on their office wall. Anyway, over twenty years after our first visit we decided to go back. When you\u2019re there, it feels like your place.\u00a0We\u2019re really rubbish at trying to find words to describe how our music sounds, but maybe because we recorded in Rockfield in late summer, there\u2019s something\u00a0pastoral\u00a0about the record.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band that recorded\u00a0\u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Blake, McGinley\u00a0along with Francis Macdonald on drums, Dave McGowan on bass and Euros Childs on keyboards &#8211;\u00a0arrived at the residential studio without a fixed plan. Their confidence and ease with working together meant the record came together incredibly quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raymond: \u201c<em>When we got offered ten days in Rockfield, we weren\u2019t ready in our minds but then we just thought, \u2018Fuck it\u2019 and went for it. If you\u2019re sitting around waiting for the stars to align, you can end up never doing anything. We turned up and worked our way through ideas, and came up with some while we were there. The song\u00a0\u201cForeign Land\u201d\u00a0was born in the studio. If we hadn\u2019t gone there at that point through happenstance, that song wouldn\u2019t exist. We like to let things happen. As people, we find a deadline inspiring. We like to put ourselves on the spot and see what happens. We usually get away with it. This record is the cliche of the blank canvas, which thankfully we managed to fill.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norman \u201c<em>We\u2019ve all been playing together for such a long time. In the past, whoever had written the song would have been the director. \u2018This is how I\u2019m hearing the drums, if you could play the bass like this\u2026\u2019 We don\u2019t do that now. Raymond or myself would just bring in the idea and people would listen and play what works with it. We\u2019d play for a couple of hours and that would be the arrangement. There\u2019s a trust that comes from knowing each other such a long time, a kind of telepathy. Everyone knows where they fit in the puzzle.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most striking lyrics on the record is on the closing track\u00a0<em>I Will Love You<\/em>. A gorgeous seven minute almost Kosmiche acoustic daydream drone, it looks to a point beyond the fury and polarisation of our modern discourse, to a time when \u201c<em>the bigots are gone\/after they apologise\/for all the harm that they\u2019ve done\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Raymond \u201c<em>In many ways, us-and-them-ism has taken over the world.\u00a0I Will Love You is looking for positivity but it\u2019s being totally fatalistic at the same time. This shit will exist forever, what are you going to do about it. I came up with the line \u201cI will love you\/until the flags are put down\/and the exceptionalists are buried under the ground\u201d while I was playing the guitar. I started wondering what that was all about and where it might go. It\u2019s looking for positives within a fatalistic, negative view of human nature.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking for positives while faced with the grim realities of the 21st century feels very Teenage Fanclub &#8211; a band who\u2019ve been a force for good for over three decades and who can effortlessly turn melancholy into glorious, chiming harmony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net\/20230523\/66\/2e\/a2\/b6\/3ea7f86fec2c9f1e0bd2c03e_600x600.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Teenage Fanclub Nothing Lasts Forever cover artwork\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>\u2018Nothing Lasts Forever\u2019\u00a0track list\u00a0<br><\/strong><br>1. Foreign Land<br>2. Tired Of Being Alone<br>3. I Left A Light On<br>4. See The Light<br>5. It\u2019s Alright<br>6. Falling Into The Sun<br>7. Self-Sedation<br>8. 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