Every Moment Has A Song

The Proclaimers: “Dentures Out” (2022)

Scottish duo the Proclaimers will seemingly never lose the knack for punchy, pointed, succinct, quasi-political musical manifestos like “Dentures Out”.

From 2022’s LP of the same name, which the Reid brothers describe as an “anti-nostalgia album”, a reflection on the terminal decline of Britain. Says brother Craig, “I don’t think anybody could seriously argue that Britain is a stronger, better or happier society now than it was 10 years ago. The decline seems to be accelerating, which is part of the feeling behind.”

Still, strictly from a musical point of view, it’s like listening to ABBA sing about their own marital disintegration in addictively catchy numbers like “SOS” and “Knowing Me, Knowing You”. No one made the demise of a relationship sound so sublime.

The Proclaimers are the political equivalent. No one makes cultural malaise sound so miraculously joyous.

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