The Clientele-Alone And Unreal The Best Of The Clientele-CD-FLAC-2015-ERP

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 Info   
     Artist  | The Clientele
     Title   | Alone And Unreal: The Best Of The Clientele
     Genre   | Indie                                Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 44:32
     Label   | Pointy                               Store   | 2015
     Catalog | POINT028CD                           Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 902 kbps                             Size    | 306.14 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Reflections After Jane                                      3:26
     02. We Could Walk Together                                      2:38
     03. Missing                                                     4:54
     04. Since K Got Over Me                                         3:54
     05. (I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine                             3:40
     06. Losing Haringey                                             4:03
     07. Bookshop Casanova                                           3:55
     08. The Queen Of Seville                                        4:29
     09. Never Anyone But You                                        5:32
     10. Harvest Time                                                3:52
     11. On A Summer Trail                                           4:09
 Notes  
     Retrofitted pop band The Clientele had obvious roots in the hazy, autumnal
     glare of Galaxie 500 and Felt. Just as those bands took their Velvet
     Underground and Television records to heart without being derivative, the
     Clientele were able to chalk up an extensive discography riddled with lush
     melodies of their own without sounding like a tribute band. Think of your
     favorite '60s pop band and odds are they're in the Clientele's blood.
     Since they began releasing records in the late '90s, the Clientele have
     been responsible for some of the most haunting, most pristine, and flat-out
     best indie pop imaginable. After a listen to "Alone And Unreal: The Best Of
     The Clientele", the case could easily be made that the group may be one of
     the best bands of their era period. Rankings and history aside, the
     collection gathers songs from each of the band's five albums, plus a song
     from a 2014 single, showing their progression from a spare,
     three-guys-in-a-bedroom-sound to the expansive string- and horn-filled
     experience they became in the end.
     Each step along the way has its thoroughly autumnal delights, chief among
     them Alasdair MacLean's vocal and his unique guitar picking. The way that
     his playing syncs perfectly with the intuitive drumming of Mark Keen and
     James Hornsey's melodic bass style is always truly delightful. (The
     addition in later years of multi-instrumentalist Mel Draisey was another
     snugly fit piece of the sonic puzzle.) Whether they were slowly strumming
     through achingly fragile ballads like "Harvest Time" or "Missing," waltzing
     through beautiful midtempo songs that feel like long walks through
     leaf-strewn country lanes ('We Could Walk Together', 'Never Anymore But
     You') or, very occasionally, getting the feet moving, as on the propulsive
     Northern Soul-influenced "Bookshop Casanova", they always struck exactly
     the right note.
     It's hard to pick favorite high points of the band's career, though it's
     hard to deny the intensely emotional one-two punch of "Since K Got Over Me"
     and "(I Can't Seem To) Make You Mine," from the transitional Strange
     Geometry album that first saw them working with a producer and expanding
     their sound with keyboards and strings (which were arranged by the band's
     secret MVP Louis Philippe).
     "Alone And Unreal: The Best Of The Clientele" is a well-chosen, emotionally
     powerful selection of songs that works well as an introduction to any poor
     soul who may have missed out on the group the first time around, but it
     also works perfectly as a summation of one of the most enriching musical
     experiences of the guitar pop era.

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14M	01-the_clientele-reflections_after_jane.flac
16M	02-the_clientele-we_could_walk_together.flac
33M	03-the_clientele-missing.flac
27M	04-the_clientele-since_k_got_over_me.flac
24M	05-the_clientele-(i_cant_seem_to)_make_you_mine.flac
28M	06-the_clientele-losing_haringey.flac
29M	07-the_clientele-bookshop_casanova.flac
30M	08-the_clientele-the_queen_of_seville.flac
40M	09-the_clientele-never_anyone_but_you.flac
28M	10-the_clientele-harvest_time.flac
29M	11-the_clientele-on_a_summer_trail.flac
293M	total