The Clientele - "Lost Weekend"

The Clientele’s songs were defined as “laments at midnight, between pop and surrealism” (NME) or “all the bleary beauty of a lazy Sunday morning” (Mojo). The English trio emerged from London’s suburbia during the summer of 1997, and are now defunct, with their leader’s new project, Amor de Días, very well alive and kicking. This record was a 5 track EP, of rare and evocative beauty. They re-recorded it 3 times (once on 8 track, once in a 24 track studio and a last one again on 8 track), cut about 70 takes of “Emptily Through Holloway”, groaned at 2 blips of white noise randomly dumped onto the tape by 8 track machine and its oxidized wiring, due to 1 bottle of coke dropped over mixing desk, and abandoned 2 songs to boredom. How fitting that the whole thing was loosely based around the poetics of the hangover. We still like and love this record, and you will too.