Teenage Fanclub are excited to announce their new album Nothing Lasts Forever, out September 22 via Merge Records in North America and their own label PeMa in the UK/Europe. To accompany the announcement the band are sharing the official video for the album's lead single “Foreign Land,” which is also available now on all streaming platforms! Watch the video and pre-order Nothing Lasts Forever in North America on CD, LP, and silver and black mix Peak Vinyl from the Merge store. Translucent pink vinyl is available from our friends at Rough Trade U.S. as well!

“Foreign Land” is the opening track on Teenage Fanclub’s eleventh full studio album Nothing Lasts Forever. That 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 “Tired Of Being Alone” that repositions Laurel Canyon to somewhere deep in the heart of the Wye Valley, the William Blake quoting “Self-Sedation” or on the song that preceded Nothing Lasts Forever’s completion, last year’s “I Left A Light On,” where a spark of hope is kept alight at the end of a relationship.

One of the recurring themes on Nothing Lasts Forever is light, as a both a metaphor for hope and as an ultimate destination further down the road. Although the band’s songwriters Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley 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 realise that until we’d finished half the songs. The record feels reflective, and I think the more we do this thing, the more we become comfortable with going to that place of melancholy, feeling and expressing those feelings.

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. When we write, it’s a reflection of our lives, which are pretty ordinary. We’re not extraordinary people, and normal people get older. There’s a lot to write about in the mundane. I love reading Raymond Carver. Very often there’s not a lot that happens in those stories, but they speak to lived experience.”

In addition to Nothing Lasts Forever, Teenage Fanclub have announced an extensive touring schedule throughout the summer and autumn, including a full UK tour in November. 

Teenage Fanclub on tour:
Jun 13 Cork, IE – Cyprus Avenue
Jun 14 Galway, IE – Monroe's Live (Galway Folk Festival)
Jun 29 - Jul 1 Egersund, NO – Egersund Visefestival
Jun 30 - Jul 1 Norheimsund, NO – Bygdalarm  Festival
Oct 07 Murcia, PT – Teatro Circo
Oct 08 Granada, ES – Teatro Caja Granada
Oct 10 Madrid, ES – Teatro Albéniz
Oct 11 Gijon, ES – Teatro La Laboral
Oct 13 Ferrol, ES – Auditorio de Ferrol
Oct 14 Alcudia (Mallorca), ES – Auditori Alcudia
Oct 15 San Sebastian, ES – Teatro Victoria Eugenia
Oct 17 Valencia, ES – La Rambleta
Oct 18 Barcelona, ES – Paralel 62
Oct 20 La Rochelle, FR – La Sirene - Le Cap Grande Salle
Oct 21 Lorient, FR – Hydrophone
Oct 24 Munich, DE – Kranhalle
Oct 25 Berlin, DE – Heimathafen
Oct 26 Hamburg, DE – Nochtspeicher
Oct 27 Cologne, DE – Kulturkirche
Oct 28 Brussels, BE – Botanique
Oct 30 Utrecht, NL – Tivoli Vredenburg
Oct 31 Groningen, NL – Oosterpoort
Nov 02 Dublin, IE – 3Olympia Theatre
Nov 03 Belfast, UK – Queen's University - Mandela Hall
Nov 05 Glasgow, UK – Tramway Theatre
Nov 06 Aberdeen, UK – Tivoli Theatre
Nov 08 Edinburgh, UK – Assembly Rooms
Nov 08 Leeds, UK – Brudenell
Nov 09 Gateshead, UK – Sage Hall 2
Nov 11 Manchester, UK – RNCM Theatre
Nov 12 Sheffield, UK – Leadmill
Nov 13 Bath, UK – Komedia
Nov 14 Birmingham, UK – Town Hall
Nov 17 London, UK – EartH
Nov 18 London, UK – EartH