Teenage Fanclub - Do Not Dare to Dream - on limited indie exclusive colored vinyl

     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.

     Songs are:
There Was You 
Tomorrow People 
Over and Over 
Be With You Tonight 
The Same Air 
I Do Not Dare to Dream 
Take Time 
Day in the Sun 
Somewhere to Land 
Young and Wise 

NEW SEALED on limited Indie Exclusive OPAQUE ORANGE vinyl