Teenage Fanclub - Do Not Dare To Dream [LP] Limited Opaque Orange Colored Vinyl

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13th Studio Album on Limited Edition Orange Vinyl LP!

 

 

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.

 

 

 

Lead single 'Day in the Sun' is a fine example of how these guys just casually crank out excellent old-school pop nuggets like it's nothing. The hooks and harmonies are absolutely killer, and Teenage Fanclub deliver them with calm gravitas, like it's an old folk song.

-Tom Breihan, Stereogum

Features

  • Limited Edition
  • Indie Exclusive
  • Opaque Orange Vinyl LP

 

 

Tracks

 

Side 1:

  1. There Was You

  2. Tomorrow People

  3. Over And Over

  4. Be With You Tonight

  5. The Same Air

 

 

Side 2:

  1. I Do Not Dare To Dream

  2. Take Time

  3. Day In The Sun

  4. Somewhere To Land

  5. Young And Wise

 

 

2026 Merge

10/2026

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