Teenage Fanclub have just finished their new album, Shadows, which is both reflective and uptempo, soulful and rocky, and excellent and good.

      “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 we 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 with this record. There are strings and lots...