― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 5 October 2003 21:45 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 5 October 2003 22:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 October 2003 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― youn, Friday, 31 October 2003 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
I just listened again hoping it might click - as I loved the initial releases - but it's so foggy and whispy and seems mostly to insinuate melodies that rarely emerge.
Several tracks are sublime - eg. "Lamplight", the title track, those two earlier singles revisited - but I wish they would be a little more insistent throughout. Anyone else find it hard to adore?
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 4 March 2004 06:08 (twenty years ago) link
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:12 (twenty years ago) link
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 19 March 2004 00:16 (twenty years ago) link
What was your verdict in the end, Doc?
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 19 March 2004 09:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 March 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link
doesn't mean i don't like it though, in fact i'm just not sure
― !!!! (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:19 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 March 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Friday, 19 March 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― !!!! (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 19 March 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 19 March 2004 17:28 (twenty years ago) link
― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 29 March 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago) link
― youn, Saturday, 28 August 2004 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Better late than never. Scooped up some tunes after reading thru the Clientele threads. A Fading Summer EP, "Rain," and "Since K Got Over Me" best so far. Superb.
One thing I don't get. The AMG review of A Fading Summer says it's for people who cherish Love's Forever Changes. Huh?? Forever Changes is great and all but A Fading Summer is very different in tone and intent. The references to Neil Halsted and Dean Wareham make more sense.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 28 June 2008 04:03 (fifteen years ago) link
new EP is out sometime in the next couple of weeks, by the way.
― f. hazel, Saturday, 28 June 2008 08:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Always found the Love referencing a tad odd myself, though I think it has to do with an approach to songwriting more than the actual sound. Someone who likes Love more than I could probably explain. Anyway, listening today to Violet Hour all the way through for the first time in a while and it sounds pretty fucking great -- better than I remembered. Not hard to see why it was a little disappointing after Suburban Light-- how could it not be?-- but it seems like the perfect album-length distillation of their early sound in retrospect.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, 28 June 2008 17:35 (fifteen years ago) link
New EP? Is it new, original material or re-mixed old songs?
I love this band, BTW.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:20 (fifteen years ago) link
ariadne ep is my favorite
― tremendoid, Saturday, 28 June 2008 21:31 (fifteen years ago) link
The Love comparisons are only half-right. If you took Arthur Lee out of Love and just let Bryan MacLean (presumably someone who's only spiritually related to Alasdair) sing about "orange skies, carnivals and cotton candy" you'd have a pretty decent blueprint for the Clientele's sound. Bryan's collected demos released ten years ago, as well as the Love songs where he sings lead, would be an example of what this Lee-less Love would sound like.
― Cunga, Saturday, 3 January 2009 08:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Fans of the C should check out this band Murals
― calstars, Friday, 21 October 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link