HERE<\/a> is my interview with the band from when they last visited our shores.<\/p>\nOh — and LA’s Radar Bros. open the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RARELY has a band gone from overrated to undersung so quickly. But when the air went out of the “alternative” boom in the mid-’90s, some great bands got lost in the flood. Teenage Fanclub’s Gram Parsons-flavored Songs From Northern Britain, from 1997,\u00a0proved that this group was made of more than just feedback drenched irony. But […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[221,40,222,83],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-el-rey","7":"category-indie","8":"category-radar-bros","9":"category-scotland","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>So it’s a real pleasure to have the Glaswegian band back in Los Angles for the first time in five years: They play the El Rey on Monday night.\u00a0Their new LP, Shadows<\/i>, on Merge, is low-key and bittersweet, like most of their recent work, with some great songs in “Baby Lee,” “The Fall,” and “When I Still Have Thee.”<\/p>\n