With their new album Endless Arcade due for release on 30th April, and having previously shared videos for the tracks 'Home' and 'I'm More Inclined', TEENAGE FANCLUB today share another new track, “The Sun Won’t Shine On Me”, from this much-anticipated LP. 

A wistful gem written by Norman Blake, “The Sun Won’t Shine On Me” comes with a visualiser created by long-time collaborator Donald Milne. 

Listen / watch HERE.

Of the track Norman Blake says: “This is something of a rarity for Teenage Fanclub - a song in waltz time!”

Endless Arcade is the long-awaited follow-up to the band’s album “Here”, released in 2016 to universal acclaim and notably their first UK Top 10 album since 1997, a mark of how much they’re treasured. The new record is quintessential TFC: melodies are equal parts heart-warming and heart-aching, guitars chime and distort, keyboard lines mesh and spiral, harmony-coated choruses burst out like sun on a stormy day. 

Teenage Fanclub recently announced news of their rescheduled European tour which includes UK and Ireland shows in September 2021 and April 2022. Dates below:

2021:

7th September 2021 - Manchester – Academy 2

8th September 2021  – London – Forum

14th September 2021  - Edinburgh – Usher Hall

15th September 2021 - Aberdeen – Music Hall

16th September 2021  - Glasgow – Barrowland

2022:

8th April 2022- Sheffield – Leadmill

9th April 2022 - Leeds – Beckett’s

10th April 2022 - Nottingham – Rock City

12th April 2022 - Birmingham – Institute

13th April 2022 - Norwich – Waterfront

14th April 2022 - Bath – Komedia

16th April 2022 - Brighton – Chalk

17th April 2022 - Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms

20th April 2022 - Belfast – Empire Music Hall

21st April 2022 - Dublin – Academy

Even if we weren’t living through extraordinarily troubling times, there is nothing quite like a Teenage Fanclub album to assuage the mind, body and soul, and to reaffirm that all is not lost in this world. 

In the 1990s, the band crafted a magnetically heavy yet harmony-rich sound on classic albums such as “Bandwagonesque” and “Grand Prix”. This century, albums such as “Shadows” and “Here” have documented a more relaxed, less ‘teenage’ Fanclub, reflecting the band’s stage in life and state of mind, which Endless Arcade slots perfectly alongside. The album walks a beautifully poised line between melancholic and uplifting, infused with simple truths. The importance of home, community and hope is entwined with more bittersweet, sometimes darker thoughts - insecurity, anxiety, loss. 

“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…” says Raymond McGinley, one half of the band’s songwriters for this album alongside Norman Blake. “When it came to choosing an album title, it seemed to have something for this collection of songs.”

Endless Arcade 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

 

Endless Arcade - out 30 April 2021, Via PeMA

 

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