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Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake: "If we share the load, it should mean that we can come up with a stronger album" guitarworld.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from guitarworld.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Congratulations to Royal Blood, who earn their third Number 1 album with Typhoons. With 32,000 chart sales - including 24,000 on physical formats and the most digital downloads of the week - the Brighton duo outsell the rest of the Top 5 combined and claim the biggest opening week for a British act in 2021 so far. Royal Blood’s third chart-topper follows 2014’s Royal Blood and 2017’s How Did We Get So Dark?. Celebrating the news, Royal Blood – aka Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher - told OfficialCharts.com: “This is getting ridiculous now. I don’t think we thought we’d make more than one album, so to get to here and be on our third and it be Number 1 is a joke, to be honest with you. We’d just like to say thank you to everyone that went out and bought it. Thank you very much, it means a lot to us. Having a Number 1 record in 2021 is like… having a Number 1 record in 2021! A great feeling. Thank you so much, we’ll see you on tour.”
Teenage Fanclub - Endless Arcade (Album Review) Thursday, 06 May 2021 Photo: Donald Milne Since Teenage Fanclub released ‘Grand Prix’ in 1995, we kinda know what’s coming when an album appears. Well versed in the ways of The Byrds, if not direct disciples, there are usually recognisable flecks of the Californian legends’ music, such as Roger McGuinn’s jangly guitars and David Crosby’s love of harmonised vocals, in the Scottish outfit’s indie-rock confections. ‘Grand Prix’ was also significant for another specific reason, in that songwriting was split equally between Gerry Love, Raymond McGinley and Norman Blake for the first time, a trend that became a standard. With the departure of bassist Love in 2019 it falls to the other two songwriting stalwarts to fill the gap, now splitting the burden 50:50.
Reviews / / 06 · 05 · 2021 For about three decades now, Glasgow’s own Teenage Fanclub have been a dependable force in the indie pop universe. Driven forwards by three incredible songwriters, the band seemed to weather everyone that was thrown at them – from the tornado that was Creation Records onwards into the 21st century. But change comes for us all, eventually. A shift in line up finds Teenage Fanclub embarking on subtle evolution on new album ‘Endless Arcade’, their first with Euros Childs as a full member. It’s the sound of a group locating a quiet sense of renewal, probing for fresh inspiration and – for the large part – finding it.
One of the most highly anticipated releases of 2021 lands, and thankfully delivers. Teenage Fanclub prove beyond doubt, they still have a lot to teach us, and a lot to say. Endless Arcade, their eleventh, is just as alluring as the band’s previous outings. A collection of tracks which perfectly sums up our present existence, and equally provides the hope in our failing dreams. The Scottish outfit have blistered a trail which is both unique, and thoroughly captivating music for thirty-one years, rising above the ‘Brit-Pop’ named alternative acts of the nineties. In truth, Teenage Fanclub were always something special, and their longevity is a testament to that.
Little Simz, the Islington rapper Simbi Ajikawo, released the critically-praised, lockdown-generated Drop 6 EP, which itself was a brisk, deeply personal follow-up to her Ivor Novello-winning, Mercury Prize-nominated third album, 2019 s GREY Area. (Little Simz also did an FUV Live session two years ago too.) On September 3, Little Simz releases her fourth album, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, and on UKNY at 11 tonight, the epic first single from that album, a collaboration between Simz, her longtime producer Inflo and pal Cleo Sol (the pair are also at the heart of the somewhat anonymous collective, Sault), and even actress Emma Corrin, who played Diana, Princess of Wales, in The Crown.