TEENAGE FANCLUB
NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
PEMA
★★★★
Now well over three decades into their career, Teenage Fanclub are unlikely to surprise anyone with Nothing Lasts Forever, which sticks to their familiar template like gum to a shoe. To many, however, this will be welcome: often determinedly mid-paced, seemingly effortless, and ultimately uplifting. It’s full of simple riffs and hazy harmonies, like the opening Foreign Land, which sounds a little like Simon And Garfunkel landed an early 1990s deal with Creation, or the laidback Falling Into The Sun, its mood reflective of late summer recording sessions in the Welsh countryside.