The Clientele

Features

The Best Indie-Pop of 2007

By Dave Heaton

2007 was a year of independent thinking, where fresh and experienced bands alike stubbornly set off on their own course. [12 December 2007]

Reviews

The Clientele: Bonfires on the Heath

By Matthew Fiander

This bittersweet, dreamy album takes all the band's strengths -- both haunting and sublime -- and amplifies them, making for their finest collection to date. And that's saying something. [7 October 2009]

The Clientele: That Night, A Forest Grew

By Matthew Fiander

The Clientele have once again proven they are the kind of great band that can try just about any sound they like, but still sound right at home. [10 November 2008]

The Clientele: God Save the Clientele

By Dan Raper

Nothing less, but little more than you would expect from this consonant British band [7 May 2007]

The Clientele: Strange Geometry

By John Kenyon

The new Clientele disc is awfully good, besting everything in Belle & Sebastian’s catalog on an album-by-album basis save for The Boy With the Arab Strap and Dear Catastrophe Waitress.

[31 October 2005]

The Clientele

By Harold Liu

The Clientele: The Violet Hour

By Devon Powers

The Violet Hour is something of a quest, where the manner of going becomes more consuming, and ultimately more important, than the impetus for pursuit.

[19 August 2003]

The Clientele

By Shannon Wearing

The Clientele: A Fading Summer

By Dave Heaton

The Clientele: Suburban Light

By Shailesh Rao

Where most musicians seem content to respond and resignify, toying with mix and match flip-books, the Clientele move beyond pedigree charts and musical genealogy, eclipsing cultural context and conceptual frameworks.

[24 January 1995]