Teenage Fanclub

Teenage Fanclub are too devoted to power pop to go for abrupt aesthetic shifts, so an album recorded in Chicago with a post-rock wizard like Tortoise's John McEntire isn't that different from its predecessor, Howdy, or even an older jam such as Thirteen. It does feel a bit more indie, a bit less classic rock. But ultimately T.F. are still channeling the Byrds/Gene Clark and even a little Poco and Fleetwood Mac. Man-Made isn't the band's magnum opus, but you'll be humming its melodies for sure.

For a moment in the early Nineties, when Teenage Fanclub's major-label debut,
Bandwagonesque, hit modern-rock airwaves on the heels of Nirvana's Nevermind, the
Scottish band seemed poised to ride the grunge rocket into the hearts and minds of
America's youth. Instead the band jettisoned most of its guitar feedback to become a
trusted purveyor of power-pop -- outlasting its contemporaries but settling into... More >