Teenage Fanclub: Nothing Lasts Forever (Peak Vinyl indie shop edition/colour) LP

"Foreign Land" is the opening track on Teenage Fanclub's 2023 studio album, Nothing Lasts Forever. That track – and the rest of this beautifully rich and melodic album – is the sound of a season's end, of the last warm days of the year while nights begin to draw in and thoughts become reflective and more than a little melancholy. While the vocals and the finishing touches on Nothing Lasts Forever were recorded at Raymond McGinley's place in Glasgow, the music was recorded in an intense 10-day period in the bucolic Welsh countryside at Rockfield Studios, near Monmouth, in August 2022. You can hear the effect of that environment on the record – it's full of soft breeze, wide skies, beauty, and space. Though the band that recorded Nothing Lasts Forever – McGinley and Norman Blake on lead vocals and guitar, along with Francis Macdonald on drums, Dave McGowan on bass, and Euros Childs on keyboards – arrived at the residential studio without a fixed plan, their confidence and ease with working together meant the record came together incredibly quickly.