Teenage Fanclub recently dropped new single and video “There Was You,” the track is off the Scottish band’s forthcoming LP Do Not Dare To Dream, available October 9 via Merge Records. The song follows previous single “Day in the Sun.”

For nearly four decades, Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley have been at the heart of one of indie rock’s most enduring and beloved bands. Joined by longtime members Euros Childs, Francis Macdonald, and David McGowan, the band has reached a point where Blake and McGinley no longer feel the need to fully arrange or fuss over their songs before entering the studio, they prefer to leave room for the rest of the band’s input.

Taking its title from Blake’s wryly named “I Do Not Dare To Dream,” the album gently pushes back on hollow optimism while still embracing a quietly hopeful outlook. “Those ‘dare to dream’ sentiments are kind of ridiculous,” Blake explains, “I don’t think the world works that way.” Instead, like its predecessor Nothing Lasts Forever the record is grounded in resilience, taking stock of an uncertain world without succumbing to despair, and finding clarity and comfort in everyday moments. McGinley notes, “We can still be cheerful and optimistic in the face of things not being great.”

As Blake puts it, “I think what happens is you just move from one thing into the next and before you know it, 30 years have passed. McGinley adds: “Yeah, it’s been a while since we started doing this thing we do, but to us it feels like no time at all. In the place where we made the record people would have been singing thousands of years ago. Life is short, but music is eternal.”

Teenage Fanclub
Do Not Dare To Dream
Track List
Merge Records

1. There Was You
2. Tomorrow People
3. Over And Over
4. Be With You Tonight
5. The Same Air
6. I Do Not Dare To Dream
7. Take Time
8. Day In The Sun
9. Somewhere To Land
10. Young And Wise

pre-order Do Not Dare To Dream by Teenage Fanclub HERE