TEENAGE Fanclub's new album is Here at last.

This is their tenth studio set and they have worked to a regular routine since the turn of the Millennium, five years each between 2000's Howdy, 2005's Man-Made and 2010's Shadows and now six in the latest hiatus between records with short but memorable titles.

In the gaps, they must conceive, gestate, deliver and nurture melodies, harmonies, chords and the rest with the most tender care and yet what makes the Scots remarkable is how the three founding members, guitarist Norman Blake, bassist Gerard Love and lead guitarist Raymond McGinley, write separately yet seemingly telepathically, then gather to contribute four songs each to the final, lovingly crafted record.

They even recorded in three locations: Vega in rural Provence; McGinley's home in Glasgow and Clouds Hill in industrial Hamburg.

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Teenage Fanclub

They have long shed their grunge pop chrysalis skins but in middle age they are still in thrall to the beauty of West Coast American harmonies, flying with The Byrds and turning up the power-pop guitars and even a little feedback when the spirit takes them, amid their abiding romanticism and emotional candour.

Teenage Fanclub may have formed as long ago as 1989 but as the title would indicate, they are not a band to hanker after the past. Here is a record for the here and now, a dozen songs of love and loss frankly vastly superior in tunes, heart, soul and lyrical impact than the young pups scrabbling around in search of a hook.

Above all, as ever with the Fanclub crucial three, you find yourself drawn equally to their songwriting prowess, be it Blake's glorious lead single, I'm In Love, McGinley's reflective, elegantly languid I Was Joyous When I Was Alive and dreamy Steady State or the aptly named Love's The First Sight and It's A Sign.

Teenage Fanclub play Leeds University on November 20.