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Sep 8, 2016This is an utterly spellbinding record that shows with maturity that the band only grows and improves. If this is their last, it is an exit at their peak, proving their relevance and importance more than ever.
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Sep 8, 2016Here is a ruminative, inward-looking album of folk-inflected beauty.
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Sep 14, 2016Gone are the days when this band gave us four albums in three years, but their enchanting harmonies and eloquent songwriting are as formidable as ever. And that's what matters most when it comes to a new Teenage Fanclub album.
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Sep 13, 2016Get past the familiar jangle of the opening four songs, and there are far subtler nuances to contemplate.
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Sep 9, 2016It is a well constructed, fulfilling work in its own right but what remains most impressive is how, despite never quite crossing over to major popularity, Teenage Fanclub are still able to exist in these challenging times.
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Sep 8, 2016Here is rarely less than lovely and boasts plentiful songs--most notably The Darkest Part of the Night and The First Sight, with their subtle orchestral underpinnings--that suggest we’ll always be glad to be reacquainted with them.
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Sep 8, 2016It may eschew the rough edges of their earlier records, and adhere to the templates the Fannies have used since Songs, but when you’ve got the formula just right, and have the songwriting chops of three of the finest melodic songwriters these isles have to offer, then the result cannot be anything less than sheer joy in the here and now.
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Sep 8, 2016While the group may have dialled back the volume in recent years, they've imbued their new material with a subtle emotional resonance.
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Q MagazineSep 6, 2016Teenage Fanclub may just have made their best record yet. [Oct 2016, p.110]
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Sep 6, 2016More importantly, though, it’s a different one; another good record in an outstanding discography and hard proof that a goodbye from Teenage Fanclub at this stage would be woefully premature.
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MojoSep 2, 2016Here never becomes too cosy, there are also plenty of sparkling textural buzzes and blips to ensure that Teenage Fanclub's traditional consistency remains impressive rather than soporific. [Sep 2016, p.91]
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UncutSep 2, 2016Their ninth album might be their best this millennium; a triangulation of mature soppiness, mitigated contentment and indelible tuneage. [Oct 2016, p.39]
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Sep 2, 2016The core components of their sound have remained intact, and it's only the delivery--which has naturally slowed down in pace--that has changed.
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Sep 6, 2016Even if Here, the band’s 10th album, finds Teenage Fanclub comfortable with their identity and largely uninterested in testing its boundaries, they still find some room for experimentation.
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Sep 9, 2016Innovation isn’t on the album’s invite, but nonetheless fans will gobble this up.
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Sep 7, 2016On Here, the balance between melody and whipped-up layer is a bit more complicated, and it portrays well the album’s central tension.
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Sep 2, 2016If you want progression, look elsewhere. Here is ‘just’ another routinely radiant TFC album.