Teenage Fanclub return with a new song and the same familiar sound of jangling guitars and warm harmonies.

Hearing a new song by Teenage Fanclub, nearly 30 years after they first introduced their jangling guitars and warm harmonies, is like sinking into a warm bath.

Comforting, reassuring and blissful.

Their signature sound remains unaltered since I first heard them on their breakthrough album Songs From Northern Britain (an arch title for a band from Glasgow) in 1997.

It’s only now I discover that was their sixth album and they had had a distinctly different grunge-adjacent sound when they first appeared ten years earlier.

The two were combined on their third album Bandwagonesque, which spawned the single Star Sign.

The video for their new single Day In The Sun – the first from a forthcoming 12th album called Do Not Dare To Dream – was shot at Black Bay Studio on the remote island of Bernera in the Outer Hebrides where they recorded the album.

Their songs unfold amid acoustic textures, organ tones and interwoven guitars, with richly layered harmonies, while their lyrics reflect on an uncertain world with quiet hopefulness, seeking clarity and comfort in everyday moments.

As McGinley remarks: “We can still be cheerful and optimistic in the face of things not being great.”

Despite various changes of personnel over their four decades together, the core duo of Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley have remained a constant presence.

I’ve never seen them play live as Teenage Fanclub but they both performed as guests when I saw Yo La Tengo in Glasgow last year.