Nearly 40 years into their career, folk-rock legends the Proclaimers, AKA Scottish twins Craig and Charlie Reid, return in September with their 12th album, Dentures Out. Continuing their history of tackling political issues – 1988’s breakthrough album, Sunshine on Leith, featured songs outlining their stance on Scottish nationalism – it’s a record that touches on everything from the weaponising of nostalgia to the bubble of modern life. Recorded in Wales and produced by long-term Manic Street Preachers producer Dave Eringa, it features that band’s James Dean Bradfield on a handful of tracks.
Dentures Out should continue the Reid twins’ recent creative and commercial success, with each of their last five albums landing inside the UK Top 40 and Scottish Top 5. Known to most people as the bespectacled hitmakers behind 1987’s Letter from America and, of course, 1988’s wedding reception favourite I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), the pair have chalked up hits in the UK, Australia and the US – where I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) belatedly peaked at No 3 after appearing in 1993 romcom, Benny & Joon. Its longevity was also assisted by a Comic Relief version that hit No 1 in the UK in 2007.
