{"id":947,"date":"2010-08-16T10:15:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=947"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:15:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:15:04","slug":"teenage-fanclub-shadows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/teenage-fanclub-shadows\/","title":{"rendered":"TEENAGE FANCLUB + Shadows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shadows-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-948\" title=\"Shadows-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shadows-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Shadows\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shadows-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Shadows-April-Uprising-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>EENAGE FANCLUB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Shadows <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Merge]<\/p>\n<p>For years, Teenage Fanclub served a key purpose during those long stretches between Big Star reunions\u2014the band\u2019s rootsy, easy-breezy power-pop was a well-crafted, intermittently inspired substitute. The Glasgow group\u2019s first album in five years arrives mere months after the death of Big Star leader Alex Chilton, so it\u2019s fitting (if coincidental) that <em>Shadows<\/em> should be something of a somber listen. The songs reference sunsets, changing seasons and time\u2019s forward march. Even the jangliest tunes\u2014the lover\u2019s plea \u201cBaby Lee,\u201d for example\u2014carry traces of sadness. Those mournful undercurrents are testaments to the songwriting powers of rotating singers Norman Blake, Raymond McGinley, and Gerard Love. The three have remarkably similar styles, and no matter who\u2019s at the helm, the songs come wrapped in <em>Rubber Soul<\/em> melodies and rolling, sparkling chords. In a Chilton-less world, these retreads sound like sweet reminders.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013KP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEENAGE FANCLUB Shadows [Merge] For years, Teenage Fanclub served a key purpose during those long stretches between Big Star reunions\u2014the band\u2019s rootsy, easy-breezy power-pop was a well-crafted, intermittently inspired substitute. The Glasgow group\u2019s first album in five years arrives mere months after the death of Big Star leader Alex Chilton, so it\u2019s fitting (if coincidental) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,80,552,551,550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}