13th Studio Album on Limited Edition Orange Vinyl LP!

Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley have been making music together in Teenage Fanclub for 37 years, and while some parts of being in a band have gotten easier with time, the simplest things can still trip them up. According to Blake, “It’s difficult when it comes to, y’know, coming up with a name for an album. Especially after you’ve made 12 of them.”

Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album Do Not Dare to Dream takes its name from one of Blake’s songs on the record, “I Do Not Dare to Dream,” an infectious anthemic song driven by ringing acoustic guitars, joined at the end by dueling electric guitars that wrap around each other like a reassuring hug. Blake says that the title is meant to mock those memes that urge people to “dare to dream,” which to him are “kind of ridiculous… I don’t think the world works that way.”

And yet, just like the song that inspired its name, Do Not Dare to Dream is in no way a gloomy or pessimistic record. Like 2023’s Nothing Lasts Forever, Teenage Fanclub’s 13th album is full of songs that are calmly resolute, taking stock of the fraught state of the world without succumbing to despair.

Lead single ‘Day in the Sun’ is a fine example of how these guys just casually crank out excellent old-school pop nuggets like it’s nothing. The hooks and harmonies are absolutely killer, and Teenage Fanclub deliver them with calm gravitas, like it’s an old folk song.
-Tom Breihan, Stereogum

Features
Limited Edition
Indie Exclusive
Opaque Orange Vinyl LP
Selections
Side 1:

There Was You
Tomorrow People
Over And Over
Be With You Tonight
The Same Air
Side 2:

I Do Not Dare To Dream
Take Time
Day In The Sun
Somewhere To Land
Young And Wise