The Clientele "Strange Geometry" and summer 2005 tour

there isn't really anything, but you could try the Magical World of the Strands

This is quite interesting:
https://play.spotify.com/user/theclientele/playlist/37WWzvgtvcVhRSMaxFYHlE?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

Not sure I'd seen an explicit acknowledgement of a Gibb influence before. A *lot* of that seems eminently plausible the moment you read it.

xp wow Willow is such a great Field Mice song but yes can def see how it's maybe not a great way to start the day

Many great suggestions, I guess it also depends on what makes the Clientele great - like, are they supreme British indie/twee/rockers or folk revivalists or... to me the psychedelic folk aspect is probably very important and just did a google and found this list http://www.folkworld.de/50/e/psych.html and without knowing much abt psych folk I think it wld be possible to find some stuff there, like this song for instance

https://youtu.be/maT9bN_4a-s
Mark Fry - Song for Wild

One thing that's almost impossible to find is a singer with as golden a voice as alasdair - closest thing I can think of is Danish singer C.V. Jørgensen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7WoOmeLzDc

the similarity between their voices was maybe part of what got me into Clientele to begin with - at least I remember thinking

about it a lot when I first heard Strange Geometry

i think the cardinal album sounds a bit like strange geometry. you might try Billy Nichols, left banke, early shack (and yeah the strands), Felt, chris cohen's lp from a few years back, Birdie perhaps. When i first heard them they reminded me of buffalo springfield.

Oh man I LOVE that Chris Cohen album. I'd forgotten about it. It does kinda have that Strange Geometry vibe, if a little artier.

I was on the same record label as a UK band called Birdie. I guess it's probably the same one you're talking about.

Cardinal's something I've been letting marinate for about 20 years... maybe I'm ready now. Gotta save some things for when you get old.

So much to explore. Thanks for all the suggestions! That Gorky's album is doing the trick but I was already familiar with it - just had forgotten about it. I had a Felt tape like 18 years ago in high school but I don't think I was ready for it and never really circled back to them. I'm really enjoying it but it doesn't hit the Clientele vibe for me.