Songs You May Have Missed #495

29 Oct 2013 Leave a comment

by Ed Cyphers in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: ,

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The Clientele: “K” (2005)

Halloween seems the perfect time for the haunting voice of Alasdair MacLean. And Autumn as fitting a time as any for the band Spin magazine called “Aggressively, gratuitously lovely”.

Back into that falling night
the birches and the silhouettes
the haunted plain
sweet lord, here I am again

You flower through my nails and skin
moving like the sunlight in the alleyways
but in this life we won’t meet again

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Songs You May Have Missed #388

12 Apr 2013 Leave a comment

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The Clientele: “Dreams of Leaving” (2007)

The sweetly sad songs of Alasdair MacLean and London quartet The Clientele are achingly beautiful things wrapped in soft textures. MacLean’s vocals combine with subdued acoustic or tremolo guitar and strings for a sound you’d swear the term “dream pop” had been coined to describe. In creating a mood of wistful melancholy this band may have no equal. They also strongly evoke 60’s pop, but it’s damn hard to pin down exactly which 60’s bands their sound is indebted to. Nevertheless, the sound is magical.

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Songs You May Have Missed #237

15 Nov 2012 1 Comment

by Ed Cyphers in Songs You May Have Missed Tags: ,

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The Clientele: “Isn’t Life Strange” (2007)

Alasdair MacLean has one of my favorite names and one of my favorite voices. His London band, The Clientele, have a wistful and evocative sound that perfectly complements a contemplative mood and a cloudy day. Violins, cello and occasional gentle tremelo guitar punctuate a reverb-laced sound that always hints at heartbreak just around the next corner. The album, God Save the Clientele, is a  thing of sad beauty, a quietly devastating record.

See also: https://edcyphers.com/2013/04/12/songs-you-may-have-missed-388/

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