Strange Geometry

The Clientele - Strange Geometry

Strange Geometry
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Artist: The Clientele
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-11
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Since K Got Over Me
  2. (I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine
  3. My Own Face Inside the Trees
  4. K
  5. E.M.P.T.Y.
  6. When I Came Home from the Party
  7. Geometry of Lawns
  8. Spirit
  9. Impossible
  10. Step into the Light
  11. Losing Haringey
  12. Six of Spades

Free Music Notes for Strange Geometry

Free Music Review: Contains some incredibly gorgeous music
Hit: 4 Stars

The only reason I don't give this five stars is that the second half of the disc is merely so-so. The first half is exquisite, containing some amazingly beautiful songs. "Since K Got Over Me" is wistful, sad, and gorgeous, with somber, reflective lyrics about how the singer's loss of orientation because his lover was able to survive the loss of his love:

It's just this emptiness
I can't chase it away
And when the evening paints the streets
When the evening paints the streets
It's like walking on a trampoline

"My Own Face Among the Trees" is equally lovely, with delicate bridges provided by organ. "K" is about, well, the mysterious "K" once again. "E.M.P.T.Y" is another jangly but slow pop gem. But after that this album tends to coast a bit. It never gets actually bad, but it does get a bit monotonous, and I usually find myself after "Spirit" or "Impossible" restarting the album. So I find myself an avid fan of about half this album.

The Clientele is a band that has an enormous amount of talent but still hasn't quite consistently recorded music that is on the same level of excellence. This as true of the other two Clientele albums I know--SUBURBAN LIGHT and GOD SAVE THE CLIENTELE--as this one. All three albums contain some amazing moments, songs so good that you begin to suspect that they might be capable of true greatness, but then the brilliant cuts are succeeded by songs that are simply not on the same level of excellence. Nonetheless, I do really recommend both this album and the band to those wanting to explore some new music. They remind me, oddly enough, of Nick Drake crossed with Galaxie 500. Or perhaps a better comparison would be the great eighties pop band Felt. Some might want to call this shoe gazer music, but I find the melodies a little too irresistible for that. Like I say, this is a very good band; if they were a little more consistent they would be a great one.

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London's purveyors of lush melodies and gorgeous, hazy pop are back with twelve new tracks of dreamy folk, shimmering psych guitars, and string arrangements. This is the band's third album to date, following 2003's "Violet Hour" and 2001's singles comp, "Suburban Light". "Aggressively, gratuitously lovely, modernizing the chambery charms of Love's 'Forever Changes', The Zombies, and Galaxie 500" - Spin.
Recorded with producer Brian O'Shaughnessy at Bark Studios, Walthamstow, Strage Geometry features12 new tracks of dreamy folk-pop, shimmering psych guitars and string arrangements by Louis Philippe and is their third album to date following 2003's Violet Hour. Pointy. 2005.
12 Tracks of Dreamy Folk-pop, Shimmering Psych Guitars and String Arragements.

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