Tue Jun 8 '10 12:24 pm
Teenage Fanclub return on June 8, 2010 with a brand new album
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Norman Blake is unwell.
“I’ve got a terrible hangover,” he says, not so much forcing the words
out as trying to stop them from knocking him to the ground. “I went out
for a drink with a friend and we came back to my place and drank whisky
last night. It’s a terrible thing.”
Norman has reason for celebration, as he and the rest of Teenage
Fanclub have just finished their new album Shadows, which is both
reflective and up-tempo, soulful and rocky, and excellent and good.
Alcohol has not fogged him with gloom.
“I’m actually happier now. We started this record about a year and a half
ago, and it’s been a long time coming,” he says. “I’m very happy with the
way it sounds. We made the last album with John McEntire in Chicago and
didn’t take any of our equipment other than guitars, whereas this time we
took a whole load of stuff — synthesizers, the lot — and we went for it...
