Clientele / God Save The Clientele

Merge

On God Save The Clientele, the band’s third full-length album, ALASDAIR MACLEAN and company are setting free their inner Monkees with a lovely blend of Big Star twisted power-pop, Byrdsian country achin’, and flashes of the Beatles at their most joyful and upbeat. The ghosts, half-light and uncertainties remain, but included in this music is a new found optimism. With the recent addition to the band of MEL DRAISEY on piano and violin, THE CLIENTELE are painting from a broader palette here, adding splashes of pedal steel and slide guitar to their already lush pop songs. Recorded in Nashville with MARK NEVERS (Lambchop, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Calexico, Silver Jews) God Save the Clientele is clearly the band’s most accomplished and triumphant record.

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