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The Clientele - The Violet Hour (2025 Reissue) The Clientele
2003’s The Violet Hour was, and remains, one of the indie-pop trio’s most vital statements: a lush invitation to their underground. On their second album, they created a deeper, more mysterious sound, whereby their sharply realised motif of 60s psychedelia and modern fuzz-pop took on inflections of jazz within their spacious atmospheres.
The Clientele stretch the early evening of The Violet Hour out infinitely, manipulating the structured time of the pop song to capture place, mood, stray thoughts, disappointments, potential, and, above all, longing. It is a shimmering jewel of a record, its languid melodies and reverb-drenched choruses at once sublime and tragic, its hazy, dreamlike discursions at once recalling the warmth of a favourite record played over a midsummer rainstorm while yearning for the mist-veiled future of a yet unwritten night.
FFO: Yo La Tengo, The American Analogue Set, Galaxie 500, Sparklehorse, Bedhead, Smog, Destroyer
Track List
1. The Violet Hour
2. Voices in the Mall
3. When You and I Were Young
4. Missing
5. Jamaican Born Rhumba
6. House On Fire
7. Everybody’s Gone
8. Porcelain
SIDE B
9. Haunted Melody
10. Prelude
11. Lamplight
12. The House Always Wins
13. Policeman Getting Lost
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