Lincoln Hall
2424 N Lincoln Ave
773.525.2508
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The Clientele
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Wednesday Mar 17, 2010 (9pm)
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$15
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“The Clientele never could decide whether they were navel-gazers or stargazers. On their latest, Bonfires on the Heath (Merge, 2009), that sense of dreamy despondence — all dressed up in '60s pop and '80s jangle with nowhere to go — still perfectly accessorizes Alasdair McLean's bedsit romanticism. A couple of upbeat, chicken-scratched numbers aside, it's all gauze, melancholy, and great songwriting. ("I Know I'll See You're Face" may be their best song since "Since K Got Over Me.") Field Music co-headlines, with brothers David and Peter Brewis back from their School of Language and The Week That Was projects, respectively. On the new, sprawling Field Music (Measure), the Sunderland, England quartet reigns in the new-wave knottiness just a bit; thankfully, that's not the case for those chiming, Big Star guitars.”
Stephen Gossett, Flavorpill
Lincoln Hall says:
The Clientele formed a long time ago in the backwoods of suburban Hampshire, playing together as kids at school, rehearsing in a thatched cottage remote from any kind of music scene, but hypnotized by the magical strangeness of Galaxie 500 and Felt and the psych pop of Love and the Zombies. Singer Alasdair MacLean still recalls a pub conversation where the band collectively voted that it was OK to be influenced by Surrealist poetry but not OK to have any shouting or blues guitar solos.
