So looking forward to the new album. Jealous of you folks in the biz that get advanced listens.
For albums I'd list Suburban Light at the top. But a top ten songs would pull in stuff from most albums and some of the EPs. Shout out to the That Night, A Forest Grew EP which has two of their best tracks, Retiro Park and Share The Night.
I'll do a poll once the new one is released.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
"the neighbour" might be their best album opener― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:47 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:47 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Since K Got Over Me is tough hurdle. Hope The Neighbour is that good.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:09 (six years ago) link
the violet hour is my favourite. liked the following ones, but i love the off-tuned misty feel of that one
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 26 August 2017 02:25 (six years ago) link
Shout out to the That Night, A Forest Grew EP which has two of their best tracks, Retiro Park and Share The Night.
― that's not my post, Friday, August 25, 2017 10:06 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Funny, I remember ilx absolutely hating Share The Night when it came out! I think it's nice myself.
From that EP nothing comes close to George Says He Has Lost His Way In This World imo
I do think Alasdair was in a sort of a compositional rut around that time. He was really leaning hard on those stab-y guitar songs with obligatory psych solo
― Evan, Saturday, 26 August 2017 05:44 (six years ago) link
Strange Geometry was my introduction to the band, and probably because of that I found it a bit difficult to get into the earlier records since they have that weird ethereal (thin mercury?) sound compared to the lush production of SG, GStC and Bonfires (and the new one).
Lately I've been listening a lot to the best of compilation, nice mix
― niels, Saturday, 26 August 2017 06:51 (six years ago) link
"suburban light" and "strange geometry" are my fave albums. I also find "the violet hour" impenetrable and hard to get into although "house on fire" is one of my fave Clientele tunes
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Saturday, 26 August 2017 11:51 (six years ago) link
Seconds ago I was grocery shopping at the local supermarket and they played I Wonder Who We Are and I was sorta freaked out. I walked half an aisle to hear better just to be sure I wasn't imagining it.
― committee on mindset metastructure (Hunt3r), Saturday, 26 August 2017 14:26 (six years ago) link
did you gaze distantly at a bag of chips
― Dan I., Saturday, 26 August 2017 16:03 (six years ago) link
that happened to me a couple days ago at the grocery store, except it was eddie murphy's "party all the time"
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 26 August 2017 17:05 (six years ago) link
i've heard 'here comes the phantom' at the supermarket, they seem to have an indie pop playlist that plays late at night since i hear beach house, grizzly bear etc all the time there too but only after 10pm
― ciderpress, Saturday, 26 August 2017 17:11 (six years ago) link
I watched (I Can't Seem to) Make You Mine on youtube and the comments are filled with awestruck The Lake House movie super-fans.
Apparently the movie opens with that song playing?
― Evan, Saturday, 26 August 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Lol thx for calming reassurances. I love them chips so much. We gonna last.
I've not heard clientele anywhere I've not sought out, and King Soopers was not my predicted venue.
― committee on mindset metastructure (Hunt3r), Sunday, 27 August 2017 02:38 (six years ago) link
Lunar Days is a beauty
― niels, Sunday, 27 August 2017 09:33 (six years ago) link
this is rather lovely from, reminiscent of the adriane ep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=s7szaOJnPYI
― cw, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
new track (everything you see tonight is different from itself) is fantastic
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
my copy shipped a few days ago, can't wait to hear the whole album!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 15 September 2017 23:38 (six years ago) link
New album streaming on NPR:
http://www.npr.org/2017/09/18/550698416/first-listen-the-clientele-music-for-the-age-of-miracles
Gonna wait until I get my vinyl copy because I'm seasonal like that.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 18 September 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
When you read been readin about an album, and are anxious just to the streaming stage, that's where I been at. Psyched to listen later tonight.
― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:51 (six years ago) link
Ha "just to get to"
― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 03:03 (six years ago) link
album is fantastic
― niels, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 09:10 (six years ago) link
it's by some distance my favourite clientele album
― Isi, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 10:04 (six years ago) link
Everyone you meet is wonderful
― niels, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
it's really beautiful!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
Like it a lot lot.
― felix! phelix! ghelix! (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:13 (six years ago) link
It's very, very good.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
"Everything You See Tonight Is Different From Itself" is like a whole album in six minutes — really fantastic. coming around to the (weird) idea that this might be their best album.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link
good interview over here: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2017/09/19/the-clientele-the-aquarium-drunkard-interview/
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:19 (six years ago) link
I haven't listened to it yet (came in the mail this morning!) but it's shocking to imagine a better album than Strange Geometry so I'm excited and nervous.
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
i know! i don't know, it might be that a band this deep into their career has no business making an album as great as Music for the Age of Miracles.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
Interesting interview!
We’ve always had the ambition, but we’re always been too poor and too impatient to do it in the way we wanted to. I feel like we’re just starting that journey, really. I feel like we can do a lot more in terms of electronic beats and a lot more in terms of instrumental textures. It really sets you free, it’s like having a whole different palette of colors to use. I said I’d only do another Clientele record if we grew. We couldn’t keep on making Bonfires on the Heath indefinitely. We had to break through and do something else. We were actually able to.
― niels, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
On first listen, the electronic beats and other new production touches were exactly what I liked least about it. Great album overall, though!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 19 September 2017 16:38 (six years ago) link
i want to see these guys live again. I saw them maybe 9-10 years ago. Beach House was opening for them!
― nomar, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
I remember feeling the same way about God Save the Clientele-- weren't there banjos or something else "adventurous" on there? :/
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― Dan I., Tuesday, 19 September 2017 16:40 (six years ago) link
think there's pedal steel on that one. Not like they've gone and made an "electronic" album by any stretch here, everything is subtly/smoothly incorporated to my ears.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
Beautiful on first listen. They've managed to broaden the sonic landscapes while remaining rooted in classic Clientele tunes.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 17:04 (six years ago) link
This album is kind of perfect isn't it? It's everything that's great about them but with a few new surprises (mainly the scope of instruments they've used). I can't stop listening to it. They've timed the released brilliantly too.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 19 September 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Falling Asleep is like a Lamplight-level masterpiece, I can listen to it on repeat for ages. Especially the album version that has an extra couple of minutes of outro!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 29 September 2017 14:32 (six years ago) link
this albumrocks very wellmuch Clientele
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 29 September 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
This is a pair of old slacks, slipped on for a lazy Sunday afternoon.:'(
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
Apropo response from a 2015 interview with Alasdair MacLean:
We’ve talked about the sound and atmosphere you create as a band and you’ve mentioned that with each album you’re trying to refine that sound and get at the essence of it. Some critics have a tendency to accuse acts of rehashing old songs. What’s your opinion on that?I think that I completely understand why people would say that about The Clientele, as they’re viewing us in 2015 as a Rock ‘n’ Roll band. The kind of rock band that has to focus on reinvention, this Miles Davis or Picasso styled reinvention. But in 2015, Rock ‘n’ Roll bands don’t mean anything and The Clientele isn’t one; they’re an art project. Again I know that sounds aggressively pretentious.What it is it’s a refinement of a certain idea and it’s something that’s lasted a couple of decades and a lot of people have contributed to it. So you shouldn’t expect a Kid A from us or a Screamadelica. That’s all bullshit now anyway. I don’t think it matters now, I don’t think it has any meaning anymore. What we’re doing is just rumbling on with this art project that’s been going on since the ’90s.Our whole aim and our whole methodology is separate from what they’re looking at, what their expectations are. We don’t have that idea of the difficult third album, that’s foreign to what we do.
I think that I completely understand why people would say that about The Clientele, as they’re viewing us in 2015 as a Rock ‘n’ Roll band. The kind of rock band that has to focus on reinvention, this Miles Davis or Picasso styled reinvention. But in 2015, Rock ‘n’ Roll bands don’t mean anything and The Clientele isn’t one; they’re an art project. Again I know that sounds aggressively pretentious.
What it is it’s a refinement of a certain idea and it’s something that’s lasted a couple of decades and a lot of people have contributed to it. So you shouldn’t expect a Kid A from us or a Screamadelica. That’s all bullshit now anyway. I don’t think it matters now, I don’t think it has any meaning anymore. What we’re doing is just rumbling on with this art project that’s been going on since the ’90s.
Our whole aim and our whole methodology is separate from what they’re looking at, what their expectations are. We don’t have that idea of the difficult third album, that’s foreign to what we do.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 30 September 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
oops spelled apropos wrong
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 30 September 2017 15:27 (six years ago) link
that's a great response
― niels, Saturday, 30 September 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
It's so rare you hear an actually interesting answer from someone in a band
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 30 September 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
i was listening to the sassoon lyric and i finally looked to refresh how and who and why i knew this... ohhh, yeah. that was really moving actually.
― zeitgeist: hotttest anonytakes wish for or promise hyper violence (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 11 October 2017 01:53 (six years ago) link
OK the reason I'm not on board with the assessments upthread that this is their best album is that the compositions feel a bit bloated. Just a bit overthought imo. Cynical read is that they're compensating for otherwise slightly less inspired melodies...
Still, I love it. The Clientele is my favorite band. Just looking at it in comparison the the rest of their catalog.
― Evan, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
New album is very good but it's not their best.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
are we ready for an album poll?
― that's not my post, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:11 (six years ago) link
Ready! It's the perfect time of year to back through their albums again.
― kitchen person, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:22 (six years ago) link
we can poll the greatest comp too!
― niels, Friday, 20 October 2017 06:58 (six years ago) link
ok then. i'll put up the album poll this weekend. great idea to poll the greatest hit comp as well.
Strange POLLometry ...
― that's not my post, Friday, 20 October 2017 15:24 (six years ago) link