Track Listing

1. Here Comes The Phantom
2. I Hope I Know You
3. Isn't Life Strange
4. Dance Of The Hours
5. From Brighton Beach To Santa Monica
6. Winter On Victoria Street
7. Queen Of Seville
8. These Days Nothing But Sunshine
9. Somebody Changed
10. No Dreams Last Night
11. Carnival On 7th Street
12. Bookshop Casanova
13. Garden At Night
14. Dreams Of Leaving

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #47185 in Music
• Released on: 2007-09-17
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
God Save the Clientele has better manners than the London quartet's previous release Strange Geometry, with a little less reverb and tighter production. But it's a very similar record. The band continues to mine '60s-era British pop, drawing heavily on the traditions of Fairport Convention and the invasion rush of bands like The Zombies. It's a hard thing to do without sounding twee a la Belle & Sebastian or overtly literate like Pulp. The Clientele's secret is they don't try and reinvent or fetishise their influences, ending up with music that sounds free and forward-thinking. A love letter to London from the vantage point of a wide-eyed boy taking a stroll, the songs here are simple delights, hopping in puddles and gazing at the blue Hyde Park sky. Hints of autumn play around the edges of smiley songs like "Here Comes the Phantom" and "The Dance of the Hours," but the optimism competes with wistful melancholies. "Isn't Life Strange" and "No Dreams Last Night" prick the good vibes with a sense that heartache is never far off. Of course, that only spikes the hopeless romance the band excels at. You could do a lot worse than to waste a day listening to The Clientele and wandering aimlessly, letting the vapor of time slip through your fingers. --Matthew Cooke

CD Description
On their third full-length album, the Clientele dial back on the overt 1960s influences of their first two albums to include some slightly more contemporaneous references. The resulting album, GOD SAVE THE CLIENTELE, crosses the band's trademark sunshiny pop tunes with some echoes of contemporarieslike Of Montreal, the Apples in Stereo, and Lambchop, whoseMark Nevers produces here. Bits of 1970s-style country rockinfiltrate the Scottish popsters' tunes here and there, as on the opening "Here Comes the Phantom" and the aching "No Dreams Last Night," while the psychedelic, largely whispered "The Dance of the Hours" and the dramatic "The Garden At Night" emphasize the Clientele's often hidden trippy side.