Teenage Fanclub Announce New Album 'Nothing Lasts Forever' With First Single Foreign Land
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Donald Milne
Teenage Fanclub have announced 'Nothing Lasts Forever'.
The band's 11th full studio album is scheduled to arrive on September 22 via their own label PeMa in the UK and Europe, and Merge in the United States. It was recorded at Wales' legendary Rockfield Studios in August 2022.
To accompany the news, the Scottish band have shared a video for lead track and album opener, Foreign Land, a sunny indie-rock song that comes with a video song shot by longtime collaborator Donald Milne.
"The song is about moving forward, not dwelling on the past," the band's co-founder Norman Blake said in a statement. "We shot the video in Hamilton Mausoleum, near Glasgow. Given that the album is called Nothing Lasts Forever we thought it would be appropriate to shoot a video inside a tomb."
"We never talk about what we’re going to do before we start making a record," guitarist Raymond McGinley explained. "We don’t plan much other than the nuts and bolts of where we’re going to record and when. That thing about light was completely accidental; we didn’t realise that until we’d 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."
Blake added: "These songs are definitely personal. You’re getting older, you’re 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’m feeling now, coming out of that period. They’re fairly optimistic, there’s an acceptance of a situation and all of the experience that comes with that acceptance. When we write, it’s a reflection of our lives, which are pretty ordinary. We’re not extraordinary people, and normal people get older. There’s a lot to write about in the mundane. I love reading Raymond Carver. Very often there’s not a lot that happens in those stories, but they speak to lived experience."
The band will support the LP with extensive touring throughout the summer and autumn, including UK and Ireland shows in November. Tickets are on sale now.
'Nothing Lasts Forever' tracklist:
1. Foreign Land
2. Tired Of Being Alone
3. I Left A Light On
4. See The Light
5. It’s Alright
6. Falling Into The Sun
7. Self-Sedation
8. Middle Of My Mind
9. Back To The Light
10. I Will Love You
Teenage Fanclub Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue June 13 2023 - CORK Cyprus Avenue
Thu November 02 2023 - DUBLIN 3Olympia Theatre
Fri November 03 2023 - BELFAST Mandela Hall
Sun November 05 2023 - GLASGOW Tramway Theatre
Mon November 06 2023 - ABERDEEN Tivoli Theatre
Tue November 07 2023 - EDINBURGH Assembly Rooms
Wed November 08 2023 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Thu November 09 2023 - GATESHEAD Sage Two
Sat November 11 2023 - MANCHESTER RNCM Theatre
Sun November 12 2023 - SHEFFIELD Leadmill
Mon November 13 2023 - BATH Komedia
Tue November 14 2023 - BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Town Hall
Fri November 17 2023 - LONDON EartH (Theatre)
Sat November 18 2023 - LONDON EartH (Theatre)
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