{"product_id":"nothing-lasts-forever-2","title":"Nothing Lasts Forever","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeenage Fanclub\u003c\/strong\u003e release their new album \u003cem\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/em\u003e via their own label PeMa. Lead off single \"\u003cem\u003eForeign Land\u003c\/em\u003e\" is the opening track on Teenage Fanclub's eleventh full studio album \u003cem\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat track - and the rest of this beautifully rich and melodic album - is the sound of a season's end, of the last warm days of the year while nights begin to draw in and thoughts become reflective and more than a little melancholy. That reflection is everywhere on the record, whether on the autumnal folk rock of \"\u003cem\u003eTired Of Being Alone\u003c\/em\u003e\" that repositions Laurel Canyon to somewhere deep in the heart of the Wye Valley, the William Blake quoting \"\u003cem\u003eSelf-Sedation\u003c\/em\u003e\" or on the song that preceded \u003cem\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/em\u003e's completion, last year's \"\u003cem\u003eI Left A Light On\u003c\/em\u003e,\" where a spark of hope is kept alight at the end of a relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the recurring themes on \u003cem\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/em\u003e is light, as both a metaphor for hope and as an ultimate destination further down the road. Although the band's songwriters \u003cstrong\u003eNorman Blake\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eRaymond McGinley\u003c\/strong\u003e found themselves touching on similar themes, it was pure coincidence. Raymond: \"We never talk about what we're going to do before we start making a record. We don't plan much other than the nuts and bolts of where we're going to record and when. That thing about light was completely accidental; we didn't realize that until we'd finished half the songs.\" Norman: \"These songs are definitely personal. You're getting older, you're going into the cupboard getting the black suit out more often. Thoughts of mortality and the idea of the light must have been playing on our minds a lot. The songs on the last record were influenced by the breakup of my marriage. It was cathartic to write those songs. These new songs are reflective of how I'm feeling now, coming out of that period. They're fairly optimistic, there's an acceptance of a situation and all of the experience that comes with that acceptance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band recorded \u003cem\u003eNothing Lasts Forever\u003c\/em\u003e - Blake, McGinley along with \u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Macdonald\u003c\/strong\u003e on drums, \u003cstrong\u003eDave McGowan\u003c\/strong\u003e on bass and \u003cstrong\u003eEuros Childs\u003c\/strong\u003e on keyboards during an intense ten-day period in the bucolic Welsh countryside at Rockfield Studios, near Monmouth in late August. You can hear the effect of that environment on the record - it's full of soft breeze, wide skies, beauty and space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most striking lyrics on the record is on the closing track \"\u003cem\u003eI Will Love You\u003c\/em\u003e.\" A gorgeous seven-minute almost Kosmiche acoustic daydream drone, it looks to a point beyond the fury and polarization of our modern discourse, to a time when \"the bigots are gone\/after they apologize\/for all the harm that they've done.\" Looking for positives while faced with the grim realities of the 21st century feels very Teenage Fanclub - a band who've been a force for good for over three decades and who can effortlessly turn melancholy into glorious, chiming harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PeMa","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50397292593483,"sku":"2025968","price":25.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Translucent Red","offer_id":50397292036427,"sku":"2025756","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Tape","offer_id":50397289873739,"sku":"2025755","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50397288104267,"sku":"2025752","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP - Pink | Rough Trade Exclusive US","offer_id":50397288956235,"sku":"2025753","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Teenage_Fanclub_-_Nothing_Lasts_Forever_-_Packshot_2b84ac6f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726489214","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/nothing-lasts-forever-2","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}