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Vinyl love: The Clientele “Bonfires on the heath”

(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: Bonfires on the heath
Year released: 2009
Year reissued: 2017
Details: standard black vinyl

The skinny: Happy new year everyone! I’m starting off my blogging year by returning to the series I started back in November, sharing the copies in my vinyl collection of The Clientele’s LPs. Originally released in 2009, “Bonfires on the heath” was the London-based dream pop quartet’s 5th studio album. It continued moseying on down the beautiful road they’d been thus far paving, mixing jangly atmospherics with hazy, technicolour psychedelics. I purchased this bare-bones Merge records reissue back in 2017 from Amazon’s UK platform*, a few weeks after I ordered the 10th anniversary reissue of The Clientele’s previous album. “Bonfires” is a total mood record, one that I am always ready to face.

Standout track: “Bonfires on the heath”

*Something I was doing with regularity back in those days because they had access to records more in line with my tastes and it was still relatively affordable, even with the shipping across the ocean and the exchange rate.

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Vinyl love: The Clientele “God save The Clientele”

(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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Vinyl love: The Clientele “Strange geometry”

(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: Strange geometry
Year released: 2005
Year reissued: 2016
Details: standard black

The skinny: More Clientele vinyl hitting my turntable this week, this one a warm and long overdue reacquaintance. “Strange geometry” was their third album, released in 2005, and would be the first of a litany new Clientele albums that would be hotly anticipated by yours truly the moment they were announced. It was only a slight letdown from the perfection of “The violet hour“, veering ever so slightly into pop territory, only very, very slightly mind you, but this didn’t keep me from eating the album up at all. Indeed, it wasn’t long before I was in love with its every detail. This particular piece has the distinction of being the first Clientele record to become part of my collection. I purchased the 2016 Merge reissue pretty much as soon as it went up for pre-order on Amazon for a very reasonable price in the $25 range.

Standout track: “Since K got over me”