(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: The Clientele
Album Title: God save The Clientele
Year released: 2007
Year reissued: 2017
Details: 10th anniversary reissue
The skinny: I got myself on a Clientele kick last month when the London-based dream pop band finally reissued their standout sophomore album, “The violet hour“, on vinyl, allowing me to complete my collection (for now) of their LPs for my record shelves. Of course, that set me off on a Clientele bender, which in my mind is never a bad bender. I got away from spinning their records for a couple weeks but now I’m back at it with their fourth record* and my third favourite album of 2007, “God save The Clientele“. It was their first album with the addition of violinist Mel Draisey, which added a whole other element to their already heavenly psych pop, and saw them oddly more upbeat than on previous outings. This record was added to my collection in 2017 when Merge reissued the album in celebration of its 10th anniversary, original album art intact but with the addition of a silver title enhancement.
Standout track: “Bookshop casanova”
*I’ll be taking a break from these while I work at finishing up the countdown of my favourite albums of the year but I looking forward to spinning the rest of The Clientele’s albums early in the new year.
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