Clientele - Suburban Light
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Artist: ClienteleBrand: CLIENTELE
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-04-24
Music Label: Merge Records
Soundtracks:
- I Had To Say This
- Rain
- Reflections After Jane
- We Could Walk Together
- Monday's Rain
- Joseph Cornell
- What Goes Up
- (I Want You) More Than Ever
- 6am Morningside
- Five Day Morning
- From A Window
- As Night Is Falling
- Lacewings
Music reviews of Suburban Light
Music Review: SPELLBINDING
Rating: 5 Stars
Try to imagine the Velvet Underground covering the Beatles, or something like that. This record is my favorite album since 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields, which is saying alot in my book, since I think "69" is a work of genius. The Clientele create absolutely beautiful, evocative pop songs that combine the dark, minor-key beauty of Lou Reed's finest VU ballads with the melodic sense of Lennon/McCartney. How else to explain "Rain", which cascades over a dark, reverb-y guitar line only to have singer Alasdair MacLean reveal a chorus of "and I want you so bad, in my heart". MacLean, also the songwriter, has a voice that slips in and out of falsetto, often in the same song, all the better to accompany the gorgeous ebb and flow of the music. He also crafts detailed lyrics, painting pictures with his words like few do anymore - there are abundant references to specific days of the week, climate conditions(it's usually raining - they're from the UK, right)and a mysterious "Mrs. Jones" keeps popping up. But, in the end, it's the music, of course, that grips you. Although only a three-piece, the band creates a lush sound on slower tracks like the gorgeous "Reflections After Jane" as well as the more upbeat "I Had To Say This". If you like your pop a bit dark and moody, but still tuneful, this is right up your alley. The whole record sounds like it was recorded in a glass house encased in ice, and I mean that as a compliment. Note: there are two versions of the record out and about, a U.S. version and a U.K. version. The U.S. version replaces three songs from the U.K. version with 3 previously unreleased tracks("What Goes Up", "6AM Morningside", "From A Window"). This was done because three songs on the U.K. version("An Hour Before The Light", "Saturday", Bicycles") had already appeared on the 'A Fading Summer' EP along with a fourth track called "Driving South". The best way to get the entire Clientele catalog is to get the U.S. version of 'Suburban Light' and then go out and get 'A Fading Summer'; this way you're covered. The UK version of the album is better, but the three new songs on the US version are good, and you don't want to be without "Driving South", which is stunning. Still, with either version of 'Suburban Light', you are assuring yourself a blissful pop experience.
Description of Suburban Light
Every once in a while one hears a rustling in the bushes. A buzz if you will. All your friends are talking about this 7 inch they found, and how this band is going to change the world, or at least has already changed theirs. Such is the nature of the organic groundswell surrounding London's The Clientele. These three British lads create an enchanting sound that is haunting, fragile, sublime and somehow strangely tragic. This version includes 3 tracks unavailable on the import only CD (these 3 tracks will replace tracks released in the U.S. on the A Fading Summer EP), 'What Goes Up', '6am Mornin gside' and 'From A Window'. 13 tracks.Picture Galaxie 500 tackling Nick Drake's Bryter Layter under the heavy influence of Velvet Underground ballads. Now, place it in the context of a misty early morning: the sky turning a dark blue, the neighborhood still asleep, your thoughts unusually clear and vivid. Such is the rarified, intangibly gauzy mood the Clientele evokes; indeed, it's no accident that the words "rain" and "morning" show up in so many of their song titles. This London-area trio has been following its own low-key path for a few years now, recording a series of hard-to-find 7-inch singles and compilation tracks for small labels in Europe and Japan. March Records compiled four of the best songs on 2000's A Summer Fading EP, and the full-length Suburban Light includes most of the remaining tracks, throwing in a few previously unreleased gems for good measure. Many of the songs follow a certain atmospheric template, led by Alasdair MacLean's keening voice and echoey, shimmery guitar. However, the Clientele is careful not to fall into a rut, shifting moods and sounds just often enough to always keep things fresh. You will hear hints of the Zombies, Go-Betweens, and prime New Zealand pop in the more up-tempo tracks, such as "Rain" and "From a Window." You could easily get lost in Suburban Light's layers of reverb and reflection. This is a CD that begs repeated plays. --Mike Appelstein
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