Opinions are conflicting on Culch.ie today regarding Teenage Fanclub’s new album, Shadows. Here’s Eilish’s review of the Scotish alternative rockers latest offering. For a differing view, check out Peter’s post. - Darren When Teenage Fanclub released “Bandwagonesque”, the album often hailed as their masterpiece, it was 1991 and I was nine years old. The only music I had been exposed to at this point was whatever Ian Dempsey played on The Beat Box of a Sunday morning and my elder siblings’ pretty sparse cassette collection; a strange mix including Whitney Houston, Billy Joel and The Fine Young Cannibals. Since then my knowledge of ‘The Fannies’ (yes, really) hasn’t improved all that much. For some reason they existed in my mind in the same category as Deacon Blue or Prefab Sprout; polished, mature, British indie-pop of the late 80s / early 90s. And while I’m loath to say that … There’s more →