{"product_id":"teenage-fanclub-man-made-reissue","title":"Teenage Fanclub - Man-Made (Reissue)","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn August 5, 2014 Merge reissued \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/merge.polyvinylrecords.com\/store\/teenage_fanclub\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTeenage Fanclub\u003c\/strong\u003e’s\u003c\/a\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMan-Made\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/products\/teenage-fanclub-shadows-reissue\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShadows\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, two critically acclaimed albums never before available on LP in the US. These reissues were part of our year-long 25th anniversary series of re-releasing classic albums from our back catalog each month throughout 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTeenage Fanclub released \u003ci\u003eMan-Made\u003c\/i\u003e, their Merge debut, in 2005. Recorded with John McEntire in Chicago, \u003ci\u003eMan-Made \u003c\/i\u003eis described by the band as “a medium-risk experiment—to cut ourselves off from what we knew, to be in a different type of city, on a different continent, to work with John, a different type of musician, an engineer with a particular sound, and to interact with whatever equipment he had at Soma: his drums, his amplifiers, his keyboards. The plan was to be somewhere truly new and deal with it, see how it worked out. We had never made a record this way before, and the prevailing circumstances at the time, the fact that we really had nothing to lose, made doing something slightly differently seem quite appealing.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/products\/teenage-fanclub-shadows-reissue\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e followed five years later. The band reveals how the recording process differed from the previous album: “Compared with \u003ci\u003eMan-Made\u003c\/i\u003e, this is a softer isolation, surrounded by fields and emptiness, and the live room at the studio, a converted barn, is filled with our equipment all mic’d up and ready to go. This set-up is how we approached the three records leading up to \u003ci\u003eMan-Made\u003c\/i\u003e, and we feel it suits us: a residential country location, close enough to drive but with sufficient distance from home to concentrate our minds on the job at hand.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth albums illustrate what SPIN magazine wrote of Teenage Fanclub: “Proof that youth is a state of mind you need never outgrow.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan-Made\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShadows\u003c\/i\u003e will be released on 180-gram vinyl, and each LP will include a download of the album plus two bonus tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMan-Made\u003c\/i\u003e bonus tracks: \u003cbr\u003e\"Please Stay\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Falling Leaf\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD does not include bonus tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"merge records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":52739189145911,"sku":"MRG262lp","price":21.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":52739189211447,"sku":"MRG262cd","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Download","offer_id":52739189178679,"sku":"MRG262digital","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0966\/3935\/3143\/files\/cf0242d97f98ee0e2ad1759d73f968c210a88ee1_ed08dd43d65ca832279932bac62050e7eeec5ded_medium_jpg.jpg?v=1785380976","url":"https:\/\/mergerecords.com\/products\/teenage-fanclub-man-made-reissue","provider":"Merge Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}