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Artist | The Clientele
Title | Alone And Unreal: The Best Of The Clientele
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 44:32
Label | Pointy Store | 2015
Catalog | POINT028CD Rip | 2015
Bitrate | 250 kbps Size | 84.56 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Reflections After Jane 3:26
02. We Could Walk Together 2:38
03. Missing 4:54
04. Since K Got Over Me 3:54
05. (I Can't Seem) To Make You Mine 3:40
06. Losing Haringey 4:03
07. Bookshop Casanova 3:55
08. The Queen Of Seville 4:29
09. Never Anyone But You 5:32
10. Harvest Time 3:52
11. On A Summer Trail 4:09
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Retrofitted pop band the Clientele had obvious roots in the hazy, autumnal
glare of Galaxie 500 and Felt. Just as those bands took their Velvet
Underground and Television records to heart without being derivative, the
Clientele were able to chalk up an extensive discography riddled with lush
melodies of their own without sounding like a tribute band. Think of your
favorite '60s pop band and odds are they're in the Clientele's blood.
Since they began releasing records in the late '90s, the Clientele have
been responsible for some of the most haunting, most pristine, and flat-out
best indie pop imaginable. After a listen to "Alone And Unreal: The Best Of
The Clientele", the case could easily be made that the group may be one of
the best bands of their era period. Rankings and history aside, the
collection gathers songs from each of the band's five albums, plus a song
from a 2014 single, showing their progression from a spare,
three-guys-in-a-bedroom-sound to the expansive string- and horn-filled
experience they became in the end.
Each step along the way has its thoroughly autumnal delights, chief among
them Alasdair MacLean's vocal and his unique guitar picking. The way that
his playing syncs perfectly with the intuitive drumming of Mark Keen and
James Hornsey's melodic bass style is always truly delightful. (The
addition in later years of multi-instrumentalist Mel Draisey was another
snugly fit piece of the sonic puzzle.) Whether they were slowly strumming
through achingly fragile ballads like "Harvest Time" or "Missing," waltzing
through beautiful midtempo songs that feel like long walks through
leaf-strewn country lanes ('We Could Walk Together', 'Never Anymore But
You') or, very occasionally, getting the feet moving, as on the propulsive
Northern Soul-influenced "Bookshop Casanova", they always struck exactly
the right note.
It's hard to pick favorite high points of the band's career, though it's
hard to deny the intensely emotional one-two punch of "Since K Got Over Me"
and "(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine," from the transitional Strange
Geometry album that first saw them working with a producer and expanding
their sound with keyboards and strings (which were arranged by the band's
secret MVP Louis Philippe).
"Alone And Unreal: The Best Of The Clientele" is a well-chosen, emotionally
powerful selection of songs that works well as an introduction to any poor
soul who may have missed out on the group the first time around, but it
also works perfectly as a summation of one of the most enriching musical
experiences of the guitar pop era.
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