{"id":11926,"date":"2016-12-14T05:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2016-11-28T13:10:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T18:10:31","slug":"teenage-fanclub-is-here-and-to-stay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/12\/14\/teenage-fanclub-is-here-and-to-stay\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Fanclub is Here and to Stay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow, Scotland-based <strong>Teenage Fanclub<\/strong> is quite popular in Great Britain; 9 of the band&#8217;s 11 studio albums have charted there. Here in the US, their albums haven&#8217;t sold as well; they have had to be content with uniformly positive critical raves along with a small but fiercely loyal fan base. Those fans have their own reward, too: a new, long-awaited album from the band (<i>Here<\/i>, released in September) and 11 North American tour dates in October.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11927\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/teenage_fanclub.jpg\" alt=\"teenage_fanclub\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/teenage_fanclub.jpg 500w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/teenage_fanclub-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The earliest Teenage Fanclub albums documented the sound of a band searching for its distinctive style. But they found it with 1991&#8217;s <i>Bandwagonesque<\/i>, a mix of soaring, close vocal harmonies and shaggy, distorted guitar lines. For their efforts, the band&#8217;s third release was named Album of the Year by <i>Spin<\/i>, whose editors chose <i>Bandwagonesque<\/i> over <strong>Nirvana<\/strong>&#8216;s <i>Nevermind<\/i>. Teenage Fanclub&#8217;s star never rose as high as that of Nirvana, but they&#8217;ve gone on to release a consistently high-quality string of albums.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01HXGXHEY&#038;asins=B01HXGXHEY&#038;linkId=bf348a69309231f48255311f72aeebdc&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even though Teenage Fanclub has three primary songwriters \u2013 guitarists <strong>Raymond McGinley<\/strong> and <strong>Norman Blake<\/strong>, and bassist <strong>Gerard Love<\/strong> \u2013 their songs always fit together on record into a cohesive whole. \u201cIt&#8217;s not like each of us sitting down and thinking, &#8216;Okay, this is a Teenage Fanclub song, so I&#8217;m going to make it a certain way,&#8217;\u201d says McGinley. \u201cBut we know what we&#8217;re working toward, what the destination is.\u201d He says that the band&#8217;s long-held practice of recording basic track with \u201call of us playing together at the same time\u201d contributes to a kind of unified sound, no matter whose song is being played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we&#8217;re in the studio, we usually haven&#8217;t finished writing the songs,\u201d McGinley explains. So the shared environment of the recording studio is where the finishing touches are applied to Teenage Fanclub&#8217;s music. He believes that shared experience of \u201cfilling in the blanks\u201d often has the effect of giving the signature Teenage Fanclub sound to most of the group&#8217;s recordings.<\/p>\n<p>There was a long gap between 2010&#8217;s <i>Shadows<\/i> and <i>Here<\/i>. But McGinley dismisses any notion that the band members were inactive for a half decade. Sessions for <i>Here<\/i> actually began in 2013. McGinley points out that during that time he also recorded an album with UK folk-rockers <strong>Snowgoose<\/strong>, and notes that Blake and Love were quite busy as well. \u201cOur drummer, <strong>Francis MacDonald<\/strong>, manages <strong>Camera Obscura<\/strong> and the <strong>Vaselines<\/strong>,\u201d he says. \u201cSo it doesn&#8217;t really feel like we were hanging around,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow, Scotland-based Teenage Fanclub is quite popular in Great Britain; 9 of the band&#8217;s 11 studio albums have charted there. 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