God Save the Clientele

The Clientele - God Save the Clientele

God Save the Clientele
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Artist: The Clientele
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-05-08
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Here Comes the Phantom
  2. I Hope I Know You
  3. Isn''t Life Strange?
  4. The Dance of the Hours
  5. From Brighton Beach to Santa Monica
  6. Winter on Victoria Street
  7. The Queen of Seville
  8. These Days Nothing But Sunshine
  9. Somebody Changed
  10. No Dreams Last Night
  11. Carnival on 7th Street
  12. Bookshop Casanova
  13. The Garden at Night
  14. Dreams of Leaving

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Free Music Review: Solid Clientele Style
Hit: 5 Stars

Just as good as all their other albums. The Clientele remains consistent in their sound and style. They progress, but they don't stray. If you like the Clientele there's no reason you wouldn't like this album.

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On their third full-length, The Clientele are setting free their inner Monkees with a lovely blend of Big Star twisted powerpop, Byrdsian country achin', and flashes of The Beatles at their most joyful and upbeat. The ghosts, half-light, and uncertainties remain, but included in this music is a newfound optimism. With the addition of piano and violin, the band paints from a broader palette, adding splashes of pedal steel and slide guitar to their already lush songs. Their most accomplished and triumphant record. Recorded in Nashville with Mark Nevers (Lambchop, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Calexico, Silver Jews).
God Save the Clientele has better manners than the London quartet's previous release Strange Geometry, with a little less reverb and tighter production. But it's a very similar record. The band continues to mine '60s-era British pop, drawing heavily on the traditions of Fairport Convention and the invasion rush of bands like the Zombies. It's a hard thing to do without sounding twee a la Belle & Sebastian or overtly literate like Pulp. The Clientele's secret is they don't try and reinvent or fetishize their influences, ending up with music that sounds free and forward-thinking. A love letter to London from the vantage point of a wide-eyed boy taking a stroll, the songs here are simple delights, hopping in puddles and gazing at the blue Hyde Park sky. Hints of autumn play around the edges of smiley songs like "Here Comes the Phantom" and "The Dance of the Hours," but the optimism competes with wistful melancholies. "Isn't Life Strange" and "No Dreams Last Night" prick the good vibes with a sense that heartache is never far off. Of course, that only spikes the hopeless romance the band excels at. You could do a lot worse than to waste a day listening to the Clientele and wandering aimlessly, letting the vapor of time slip through your fingers. --Matthew Cooke

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