Name: I Am Not There Any More
Brand: The Clientele

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MRG807LPC2

Colour

Blue

Colour details

Galaxy Blue

Discogs ID

[r27707145]

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: Yes

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Exclusive Shared with Monorail.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2023-07-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Merge

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

673855080734

Total Cap

Blue LP | Rough Trade Exclusive

MRG807LPC1

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

673855080703

Red LP

MRG807LP

Black

Download code: No

Extended format: No

673855080710

Black LP

MRG807CD

673855080727

Artist

The Clientele

Genre US

Indie Pop / Shoegaze

Label US

Merge Records

The Clientele are a three-piece band that formed in Hampshire in 1997. Their music is influenced by artists such as Felt, Galaxie 500, Television, Love, and The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band. They also draw inspiration from 70s AM radio songwriters like Jimmy Webb and Willie Nelson. With minimalist arrangements and jazz chords and rhythms, their sound has been described as reminiscent of late lonely nights on a long-wave radio.

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Merge Records 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.&nbsp;

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.

I Am Not There Any More

Music US

Discover I Am Not There Any More by The Clientele on Merge Records. Limited edition vinyl and CD formats available. A new sonic frontier for the band, blending post-bop jazz, contemporary classical, and electronic music.