The Clientele

The Clientele are a guitar pop band who instantly came up with a sound that was all their own, hazy, autumnal, and hookily sad with yearning vocals, chiming, arpeggiated guitars, and a calmly elastic rhythm section -- and tinkered with it successfully over a long, fruitful career. Early albums like 2000's Suburban Light had obvious roots in the transcendently morose chime of Galaxie 500 and Felt, but the Clientele had enough tenderly lush melodies of their own to escape sounding like a tribute band. As they grew musically, they were able to add elements to their core sound sea...