{"id":1078,"date":"2009-10-06T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/the-delicate-beauty-of-the-clientele.html"},"modified":"2009-10-06T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T22:59:00","slug":"the-delicate-beauty-of-the-clientele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/10\/the-delicate-beauty-of-the-clientele.html","title":{"rendered":"The Delicate Beauty of the Clientele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SsvdMito-uI\/AAAAAAAAAbQ\/nK6bywxsNGc\/s1600-h\/bonfires.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SsvdMito-uI\/AAAAAAAAAbQ\/nK6bywxsNGc\/s320\/bonfires.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>SOME days my favorite newish british band is the clientele, a group from england&#8217;s beautiful south who create an eerie, lonely sound rooted in chiming guitars. they are as english as nick drake but also rooted in west coast light psychedelia of the 1960s &#8212; arthur lee and love, the byrds, perhaps the beach boys or mamas and the papas. they have been over-compared to belle &#038; sebastian because of some shared influences; i dont think the groups sound all that much alike. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/store\/store_detail.php?catalog_id=628\">HERE<\/a> is the new album from the band, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mergerecords.com\/\">merge records<\/a> is streaming for now. it comes out today.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>when i want stomping guitars and extroversion, i turn to british sea power, my other fave brit band that hasnt entirely broken in US. but the clientele create something hazy and introspective &#8212; check out the title track, &#8220;bonfires on the heath.&#8221; as someone who&#8217;s spent a fair bit of time in england, their music makes me think of wandering alone on the gently rolling hills of the south downs, or through the greener-than-green hampstead heath itself.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>they play joe&#8217;s pub in new york on oct. 29. still remember their troubadour show in LA a few years back. (they had just added a hot cello or viola player with a great 60s bardot-inspired haircut as i recall.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>so far my favorite LP is &#8220;strange geometry,&#8221; with the wonderful song &#8220;since k got over me.&#8221; i also like their folk-rocky &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RweztawAnls&#038;feature=related\">reflections after jane<\/a>.&#8221; i dont love it when they pump their sound up or amp up the production to make it less intimate, so i wasnt crazy about &#8220;god save the clientele.&#8221; still digging into the new one &#8212; what do my readers think?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOME days my favorite newish british band is the clientele, a group from england&#8217;s beautiful south who create an eerie, lonely sound rooted in chiming guitars. they are as english as nick drake but also rooted in west coast light psychedelia of the 1960s &#8212; arthur lee and love, the byrds, perhaps the beach boys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,88,40,453,38,227,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-60s","7":"category-brit-culture","8":"category-indie","9":"category-nick-drake","10":"category-rock-music","11":"category-the-clientele","12":"category-west-coast","13":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}