Clientele - Fading Summer
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Artist: ClienteleEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-04-08
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- An Hour Before The Light
- Driving South
- Bicycles
- Saturday
Music reviews of Fading Summer
Music Review: Fading "Light"
Rating: 3 Stars
Somewhere between "Suburban Light" and the recent "Violet Hour" was Clientele's "Fading Summer," a brief EP full of drowsy, hazy pop melodies that will either soothe you or have you snoring. It's a pretty little EP, but somehow it feels a bit bland beside their full-length albums.
It opens with the quietly catchy "An Hour Before the Light," a shimmery little song that sounds like a lullaby. It's followed up by the lackluster, stripped-down "Driving South," and the muted ballad "Bicycles," before finishing up with the bouncier "Saturday."
Imagine the Sea and Cake on a summery night, beside a lake covered in fog -- that's the feeling that "Fading Summer" offers listeners. It's a pretty listen, but it's way too short -- as soon as you're sinking into it, bam, you're done. And "Driving South" is a bit too smug-sounding for its own good.
The echoing guitars give the instrumentation an eerie, dreamy effect, and it definitely pegs as the most atmospheric guitarwork done in a long time. Alasdair MacLean's vocals are muted and distant, and his songs have little recognizable end or beginning. But don't worry -- you won't actually be listening to the words. He could be reading his grocery receipt, and would sound hypnotic and unintelligible.
While "Fading Summer" is a fairly good EP, a lackluster long and too-short length drag it down a bit. Even so, it's a charming listen.
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