Teenage Fanclub - Howdy

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Free Music Notes for Howdy

Free Music Review: Pop's saviors, once again.
Hit: 5 Stars

Howdy is TFC's first release since 1997's Songs From Northern Britain, and while it may not be as uniformly lovely as that album, or as viscerally exciting as Bandwagonesque or Thirteen, it's certainly welcome and worthy of the Teenage Fanclub name. Howdy is probably stronger song-by-song than Grand Prix and will certainly please their cult fan base. And maybe make a few new ones among the million or so folks who purchased the most recent Travis album, which this crushes like a grape. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

What to expect? More of the same, mostly. Norman contributes the stunningly melodic "Accidental Life" and the bittersweet Chilton/Bell-esque "If I Never See You Again", and the hypnotic "Dumb Dumb Dumb", and (probably) my personal favorite, the radiant "Straight And Narrow"; Raymond comes through on the brilliant "I Can't Find My Way Home", and the gorgeous "Happiness", and Gerry expands his already overflowing songbook of bright pop gems with "Near You", the soul-tinged "Cul-De-Sac", and "I Need Direction", Howdy's Association-esque first single.

While it lacks Songs From Northern Britain's uniformed vision (and its ensemble harmonies), Howdy is more wonderful music from a band we are all lucky to share the planet with. Buy it now, and smile tomorrow.

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