Teenage Fanclub have announced new album ‘Do Not Dare To Dream’. Check out the laid-back single ‘Day In The Sun’ below.

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The new record marks the 13th from the indie giants, and the first from them since 2023’s ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’. It is set for release on October 9 via Merge, and available to pre-order here.

Arriving decades on from their formation in 1989, the new album sees the band work to push their style of melodic guitars, eye-catching harmonies, and introspective songwriting into new directions.

As well as announcing the LP, the band have also dropped a taster in the form of new single ‘Day In The Sun’ – a relaxed track that centres on themes of renewal and embracing a new outlook. Check it out below, alongside a video directed by Donald Milne.

For the album as a whole, Teenage Fanclub explores how hollow optimism feels “ridiculous”, and retaliates against empty words of encouragement.

“Those ‘dare to dream’ sentiments are kind of ridiculous,” singer Norman Blake said, “I don’t think the world works that way.”

“We can still be cheerful and optimistic in the face of things not being great,” added Raymond McGinley.

The album sees them joined by longtime members Euros Childs, Francis Macdonald and David McGowan, and was written as the musicians all embraced being in the studio together, without obsessively perfecting arrangements ahead of time.

“I think what happens is you just move from one thing into the next and before you know it, 30 years have passed,” Blake shared.

McGinley added: “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.”

The ‘Do Not Dare To Dream’ tracklist is:

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’

As well as releasing new music, the indie band are heading out on tour later this year, with dates kicking off in Cambridge in November, followed by shows in Bristol, London, Glasgow and more over the month.

Visit here for tickets, and find a list of dates below.

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Teenage Fanclub’s UK and Ireland tour dates are:

NOVEMBER
3 – Cambridge – Junction
4 – Bristol – Trinity
5 – Brighton – Concorde 2
6 – London – Hackney Church 
7 – Manchester – New Century Hall
9 – Leeds – Project House
10 – Newcastle – Boiler Shop
11 – Aberdeen – Lemon Tree
13 – Glasgow – Saint Luke’s 
14 – Glasgow – Saint Luke’s 
15 – Edinburgh – La Belle Angele 
16 – Belfast – Empire Music Hall
17 – Dublin – Academy
19 – Cardiff – Y Plas
20 – Birmingham – The Crossing
21 – Glasgow – SWG3 Warehouse

Earlier this year, Blake joined up with ex-Suede member Bernard Butler and James Grant for a supergroup, and announced the new album ‘Murmurs’ with the single ‘Lonely Night’. They went on tour together earlier this year too, and wrapped up the shows in Glasgow last month.