
Merge Records
The Clientele - I Am Not There Anymore (Red Vinyl)
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On
July
28,
2023,
Merge
Records
will
release
I
Am
Not
There
Anymore,
The
Clientele’s
first
new
record
in
six
years.
Over
The
Clientele’s
32-year
career,
critics
and
fans
have
described
their
songs
with
words
like
“ethereal,”
“shimmering,”
“hazy,”
“pretty,”
and
“fragile.”
Their
singer,
guitarist,
and
lyricist,
Alasdair
MacLean,
has
his
own
interpretation
of
the
effect
his
music
creates.
“It’s
that
feeling
of
not
being
there,”
he
says.
“What’s
really
been
in
all
the
Clientele
records
is
a
sense
of
not
actually
inhabiting
the
moment
your
body
is
in.”
I
Am
Not
There
Anymore,
regularly
evokes
what
MacLean
calls
“the
feeling
of
not
being
real.”
Many
of
the
songs
were
inspired
by
MacLean’s
memories
of
the
early
summer
in
1997,
when
his
mother
died,
but
also
represent
The
Clientele
pushing
towards
a
new
sonic
frontier
as
a
band,
experimenting
over
the
course
of
a
three-year
recording
period.
Of
this
stretching
out,
MacLean
says,
“We’d
always
been
interested
in
music
other
than
guitar
music,
like
for
donkey’s
years.”
This
time
out,
he
and
bassist
James
Hornsey
and
drummer
Mark
Keen
incorporated
elements
of
post-bop
jazz,
contemporary
classical,
and
electronic
music.
According
to
MacLean,
“None
of
those
things
had
found
their
way
into
our
sound
other
than
in
the
most
passing
way,
in
the
faintest
imprint.”
With
those
elements
in
the
foreground,
I
Am
Not
There
Anymore
reasserts
The
Clientele’s
standing
among
the
great
stylists
of
pop
music,
deftly
shifting
from
image
to
image,
mood
to
mood,
in
a
way
that
feels
both
new
and
classically
them.
Tracklisting:
Side
A
1.
Fables
of
the
Silverlink
2.
Radial
B
3.
Garden
Eye
Mantra
4.
Segue
4
(iv)
5.
Lady
Grey
Side
B
6.
Dying
in
May
7.
Conjuring
Summer
In
8.
Radial
C
(Nocturne
for
Three
Trees)
9.
Blue
Over
Blue
10.
Radial
E
Side
C
11.
Claire's
Not
Real
12.
My
Childhood
13.
Chalk
Flowers
14.
Radial
H
15.
Hey
Siobhan
Side
D
16.
Stems
of
Anise
17.
Through
the
Roses
18.
I
Dreamed
of
You,
Maria
19.
The
Village
Is
Always
on
Fire
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