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- Record Label: Merge
- Release Date: Sep 4, 2015
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- Summary: The deluxe edition of the best of compilation for the British indie pop band features singles from its five full-length albums, a standalone single from 2014, and a previously-unreleased live session.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop
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MagnetOct 14, 2015It's neither better nor worse than any other Clientele album, but it's an excellent primer. The real treat for fans, though, come sin the deluxe edition which includes a 10-track "lost album" from 1994, The Sound Of Young Basingstoke. [No. 125, p.53]]
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Sep 10, 2015Alone & Unreal: The Best of the Clientele is a well-chosen, emotionally powerful selection of songs that works well as an introduction to any poor soul who may have missed out on the group the first time around, but it also works perfectly as a summation of one of the most enriching musical experiences of the guitar pop era.
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Sep 10, 2015With a couple of judicious tweaks to the song choices, this retrospective could have been truly great rather than simply very, very good.
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Sep 10, 2015It’s a little short in the tooth, but a little always went a long way with this band.
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Sep 10, 2015The career-spanning retrospective Alone and Unreal: The Best of the Clientele serves as a potent reminder of just how discreetly revelatory the group's primary method of operation has always been.
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