When one first encounters the Clientele, it’s a little like being let in on a shared secret. In the U.S., the London indie-rock band has released music on the Merge label since the early 2000s and it ...

Amor de Días opens for Damon & Naomi at The ArtsCenter Thursday, May 19, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10–$12. Almost two years ago, the British band The Clientele was preparing to release the confidently ...

chickfactor: what has the clientele been up to? are you back together for good or just a few shows? alisdair maclean (the clientele): I’ve been slowly and painfully writing a novel, and playing in ...

London psychedelic chamber-pop outfit the Clientele have been making their hushed, literate songs for 32 years, evoking peers such as the Go-Betweens, the Left Banke, and Felt while maintaining their ...

The Clientele have always been known as an imaginative ensemble, and with their new album, I Am Not There Anymore, they take that otherworldly ambiance to an even higher plateau. Singer, guitarist, ...

For more than a decade, the Clientele have released a steady stream of 60s-inspired folk pop that projects a dreamy world filled with reverbed guitars and British mysticism. They could seemingly teach ...

"Fables of the Silverlink" upends The Clientele's trad-rock band template with drum-and-bass-tinged breakbeats. Guitar cedes the spotlight to a scene-stealing cello. Midway through, singer/guitarist ...

The Clientele will release I Am Not There Anymore, their first album in six years, on July 28 via Merge. This album is a double and unlike anything the UK group have done before, incorporating ...

Listening to The Clientele can feel like thumbing through a stack of old Polaroids. With everything now rendered in glistening photo-realistic high definition, Polaroids seem to depict experiences ...

Despite releasing five albums of sublime psychedelic folk pop, The Clientele remains painfully under-appreciated, especially in its native Britain. Given singer-guitarist Alasdair MacLean's very ...

[PSYCHEDELIC U.K. POP] The music of the Clientele is very English and very sad. Its songs are full of regretful reflections and a longing for the return to fleeting moments of happiness. Despite the ...