"I woke up one morning and the word ‘man-made’ came into my head," says
Raymond McGinley. "I thought, that’s funny, because you don’t really hear that any
more. People don’t refer to it like they used to with ‘man-made fibers’ on your jumpers.
It just sounded strange. And we thought, maybe that applies to this thing that we’ve just
done."
This thing, this new Teenage Fanclub album, was done last year during two
separate sessions at Soma Electronic Music Studios in Chicago. The first session took
place in February, the second during the summer, thereby ensuring the influence of the
extremities of climate which prevail in the Windy City. Why Chicago? Because the
Fanclub decided they weren’t going to record in the UK. It’s the first time they’ve
recorded an entire album abroad. Also for the first time, they’re releasing it themselves
in the UK on their homegrown,...
