Teenage Fanclub - Shadows review
Album Of The Week: Teenage Fanclub - Shadows
Teenage Fanclub
Shadows
PeMa
Mellow tunefulness from the melodic Scottish songsmiths
Maybe it's having three quality songwriters in the band from whom to take only the best work, but the consistency of Teenage Fanclub's output over a now 20-year career is a thing of wonder. Which is why Shadows, though not equal to career peaks such as Bandwagonesque, Grand Prix and Songs From Northern Britain, is still an album packed with class. The band have their feet very much off the pedal here, so there is little of the driving power pop with which they made their name. What there is in its place is a set of lilting, reflective melodies embellished with trademark tasteful harmonies. Teenage Fanclub: soundtracking lazy summers since 1990.
Standout tracks: Baby Lee, The Past, Sweet Days Waiting
For fans of: Big Star, The Beach Boys, Neil Young
Get the MusicRadar Newsletter
Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here.
"Even if the album only had that one track on, it would still be on this list": Humanist's Rob Marshall on the 9 records that changed his life, supporting Depeche Mode in stadiums, and why he'll never switch to digital amp modelling
"I went into my personal archive to see if there were any unreleased gems and I hit the jackpot": U2 announces a new 'shadow album'