Recorded August 2008 Shadows
(2010) Here
(2016) Release date 31 May 2010 Genre Alternative rock | Length 47:54 Artist Teenage Fanclub Label PeMa | |
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Released 31 May 2010 (2010-05-31) Similar Teenage Fanclub albums, Other albums | ||
Teenage fanclub sometimes i don t need to believe in anything
Shadows is the ninth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released on 31 May 2010 on the band's own PeMa label in Europe and on Merge Records in North America. It is the band's first new album release in five years. The album contains twelve songs: four written by Gerard Love, four by Norman Blake, and four by Raymond McGinley. Blake's "Baby Lee" was released as a single.
Contents
- Teenage fanclub sometimes i don t need to believe in anything
- Critical reception
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
The liner notes credit David McGowan as a member, and he has been a constant tour fixture for a number of years now, playing keyboards, additional guitars, and, more recently, the slide guitar.
Critical reception
Shadows received favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 81, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 18 reviews. Matt Collar of Allmusic found the "sparkling and reflective" album a worthy follow-up to Man-Made, and concluded by writing, "If the day [described in "Today Never Ends"] is as sun-drenched and relaxed as the songs on Shadows implies, then may it and Teenage Fanclub go on and on." Noel Murray of The A.V. Club wrote, "This is a work of rare craft, from a band now inclined to leave behind something timelessly beautiful."
Spin Magazine named Shadows the 40th best album of 2010.
Personnel
Credits for Shadows are adapted from Allmusic.
Songs
1Sometimes I Don't Need to Believe in Anything4:32
2Baby Lee4:24
3The Fall5:25