Here (Teenage Fanclub album)

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Here
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Studio album by
Teenage Fanclub
Released9 September 2016 (2016-09-09)
Recorded2013–2015 [1]
Studio
Genre Alternative rock
Label PeMa (Europe)
Merge (North America)
Producer Teenage Fanclub
Teenage Fanclub chronology
Shadows
(2010)		Here
(2016)		 Endless Arcade
(2021)
Singles from Here
  1. "I'm in Love"
    Released: June 2016 [2]

Here is the tenth studio album by Scottish alternative rock band Teenage Fanclub, released on 9 September 2016 on the band's own PeMa label in Europe and on Merge Records in North America. It was the band's final album to feature bassist and co-founder Gerard Love, who left the band in November 2018.

Contents

Recording

Teenage Fanclub began recording Here in 2013 at Vega Studio in Provence in southeastern France. The studio was primarily chosen for its vintage EMI desk, which is said to have been used for recording two Rolling Stones albums. [3] "We always like to go somewhere that's not Glasgow because I think your environment affects what you're doing while you're working," guitarist Norman Blake said in 2016. "If you go to an exotic location like the south of France, hopefully you feel a little more inspired." [4] The band spent three weeks at the studio, completing most of the backing tracks during their stay. [3] The band then went their separate ways for a few months, ruminating on what they had recorded so far. [4] All vocals were then recorded at guitarist Raymond McGinley's home studio in Glasgow in two weeks spread over a couple of months, with the band's three songwriters taking turns putting down their lead and harmony vocals. "Because we write our lyrics while doing this," Blake said, "it's inevitable that we end up writing about similar things as you can't help but pick up on what the others are writing about." [3]

The band worked on the album for three years intermittently between other projects, [1] with Blake even recording some additional harmony vocals in a hotel room in Halifax, Nova Scotia in Canada [3] when he was performing solo at the Halifax Urban Folk Festival. [5] "I emailed those to Raymond and he dropped them into the song the same day," Blake said. [3] Mixing of the album took three weeks in late 2015 at Clouds Hill Recordings in Hamburg, Germany. [4] It was mastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, England. "Three years, four studios and four countries," as Blake put it. [3]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.5/10 [6]
Metacritic 79/100 [7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Exclaim! 8/10 [9]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [11]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Pitchfork 7.8/10 [13]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [14]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [15]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [16]
Uncut 8/10 [17]

Here 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 79, which indicates "generally favourable reviews", based on 21 reviews. [7]

The album made the twenty-strong longlist for the Scottish album of the Year Award 2017 but did not make it to the ten-strong shortlist. [18]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."I'm in Love" Norman Blake 2:41
2."Thin Air"Gerard Love3:11
3."Hold On"Raymond McGinley3:24
4."The Darkest Part of the Night"Blake3:16
5."I Have Nothing More to Say"Love4:18
6."I Was Beautiful When I Was Alive"McGinley4:44
7."The First Sight"Love5:08
8."Live in the Moment"Blake3:03
9."Steady State"McGinley4:16
10."It's a Sign"Love3:36
11."With You"McGinley3:58
12."Connected to Life"Blake4:00

Personnel

Credits for Here are adapted from AllMusic [19] and the album's liner notes. [20]

Teenage Fanclub

Additional musicians

Technical

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