Man-Made
Merge
2005
Rating: 7.5 bachelor parties out of 10
It seems like just yesterday I was obsessing over the Teenage Fanclub albums “A Catholic Education” and “Bandwagonesque” and enamored over the new fuzzed-out Big Star-like sounds of this Scottish group. Fast forward 15 years, and now they’ve become the old guard of high-quality pop music. Somewhere along the line (specifically, their album “Songs from Northern Britain”), they infused that Badfinger/Big Star influence with a healthy chunk of Byrds-style jangle and harmonies and have been traveling down that road ever since. Man-Made is their first new record in three years, and probably the best thing they’ve put out since the mid-to-late nineties. The three-headed song writing attack of Norman Blake, Gerard Love and Raymond McGinley has produced a number of instant Fanclub classics on this release, such as “Time Stops”, “Fallen Leaves” and “Born Under a Bad Sign”. Saccharine, beautifully harmonized melodies backed by some of the cleanest pop you’ve ever heard…if this sounds good to you you’ll be hard pressed to find anything as good as Teenage Fanclub.
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