For his work in Teenage Fanclub, Scotland's Norman Blake is an indie rock icon. The same goes for Welsh songwriter Euros Childs, the former leader of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. But the legacies they've built during the last two decades apparently don't satisfy the artistic drives that made them musicians in the first place; Jonny, their casual duo affair the two convened in order to write enough songs for a self-made single, recently released its self-titled debut through Merge Records. Full of inescapable melodies, humor and elliptical lyrics, Jonny is a 40-minute spree meant for a spring drive and, at times, the dance party you find at the end of it.
Download the new single, "You Was Me," here, and watch the nature-day video above. We spoke with Blake in Japan just before the start of Jonny's first tour there and after a 36-hour whirlwind of travel for two Teenage Fanclub shows in Brazil.
Download the new single, "You Was Me," here, and watch the nature-day video above. We spoke with Blake in Japan just before the start of Jonny's first tour there and after a 36-hour whirlwind of travel for two Teenage Fanclub shows in Brazil.
- 5/18/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
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