The Clientele – Everyone you meet (from the album Music for the Age of Miracles, Tapete Records)



Sometimes a plainly gorgeous piece of music is enough.

Other times the softly muted fanfare of brass like the beloved sound of Eric Matthews can make all the difference.

No sense of Mr Matthews’ baroque flourishes here though. More akin to some of The Byrds’ subtler experiments. Around the Younger than yesterday album when David Crosby in particular struck out on a tantalising dreamy limb before heading off into the sunset.

There’s a distinct domestic feel. An idyll. As Alisdair MacLean details a daily routine around Silver Street and singing strings buoy up every word.

It amounts to a kind of soaring chamber pop as poignant as it is uplifting.

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