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Teenage Fanclub announce first album in four years Endless Arcade

11 November 2020, 17:27 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

Teenage Fanclub have announced their first album in four years Endless Arcade, alongside sharing the opening song "Home".

"Home" is the band's first new track since last year's "Everything Is Falling Apart", which will also feature on Teenage Fanclub's new LP that follows 2016's Here.

The album was written between Raymond McGinley and Norman Blake, with McGinley commenting, "I think of an endless arcade as a city that you can wander through, with a sense of mystery, an imaginary one that goes on forever… When it came to choosing an album title, it seemed to have something for this collection of songs."

McGinley adds of the recording process, "The process is much the same as it always has been. In 1989 we went into a studio in Glasgow to make our first LP. Francis starts setting up his drums, the rest of us find our spots around him and off we go. Thirty years later Francis is setting up his drums in Clouds Hill Recordings in Hamburg. A few hours later we’re recording the first song. We don’t conceptualise, we don’t talk about it, we just do it. Each of us are thinking our own thoughts, but we don’t do much externalising. We just feel our way into it."

Blake says, "We were very comfortable with each other in the studio. I think some of the playing is a bit freer and looser than on recent albums. Dave and Euros’ playing is amazing, and Francis on drums is really swinging. The whole process of making this album was very invigorating. Everyone in the band contributed a lot and the song arrangements came together really quickly. Everything felt fresh."

Tracklist:

  1. Home
  2. Endless Arcade
  3. Warm Embrace
  4. Everything Is Falling Apart
  5. The Sun Won’t Shine On Me
  6. Come With Me
  7. In Our Dreams
  8. I’m More Inclined
  9. Back In The Day
  10. The Future
  11. Living With You
  12. Silent Song
"Home" is out now. Teenage Fanclub's Endless Arcade album will arrive 5 March 2021 via PeMa/Merge, and is available to pre-order now.
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