Teenage Fanclub by Donald Milne
“The record feels reflective, and I think the more we do this thing, the more we become comfortable with going to that place,” Teenage Fanclub’s Raymond McGinley said.
Teenage Fanclub have announced their new album Nothing Lasts Forever will be released on September 22nd.
The news has come with a video for lead track and album opener Foreign Land directed by the band’s longtime collaborator Donald Milne, as well as details of a UK and Ireland tour which will take place during November.
“These songs are definitely personal,” Norman Blake revealed. “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.”
Nothing Lasts Forever tracklist:
Foreign Land
Tired Of Being Alone
I Left A Light On
See The Light
It’s Alright
Falling Into The Sun
Self-Sedation
Middle Of My Mind
Back To The Light
I Will Love You
