Artist: The Proclaimers
Album: Dentures Out (Cooking Vinyl)
The new Proclaimers album, Dentures Out, features 13 songs in only 34 minutes with not a single word or guitar chord wasted. It also has a surprise guest in the shape of Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield. It’s very cathartic to hear really good songwriting addressing the maladies that post-Brexit Britain suffers from at the moment, so we begin our conversation by asking Charlie Reid if it was cathartic for them to write, too?
“The writing of the songs started before lockdown and then was affected, as everybody was, by the fact that it’s the longest period probably that Craig and I couldn’t actually stand with everyone first time there’s been one – it’s been about looking back and nostalgia. How people look back, whether they do so accurately, whether they do so through rose-coloured glasses, and how people examine the past and how that affects their view of the future. I think that’s what the record’s theme is.”
