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Sep 28, 2017More than ever, the human experience is tangible through their music, and they manage to create those unmaintainable moments of joy that can, in a moment or a movement, dissolve into something else entirely; a memory of something long forgotten, a vision of your inconsequentiality in the world, a realisation that everything is temporary. Fortunately, they are not always downers, moreover it just feels comforting to have those feelings quantified so stirringly through music.
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Oct 12, 2017Throughout, The Clientele’s mellifluous breeziness accommodates fresh sounds without signs of strain.
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Sep 22, 2017This album, more than any punk tune, is the sound of the suburbs; rather than being from the suburbs, it sounds like the suburbs. If you think that’s no recommendation, just hear it. There is beauty here, and sadness, and peril, and deep, deep soul.
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Sep 21, 2017The times are always right for music as healing and calm as the Clientele's; the times surrounding the release of this wonderfully peaceful and uplifting album need it even more--and, thankfully, the band has responded with some of its best work ever.
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Sep 20, 2017Music for the Age of Miracles is rather beautifully arranged by MacLean and long-time drummer Mark Keen, scored by Chris Taylor with the strings and brass conducted by Anthony Harmer.
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Sep 20, 2017It abounds with fertile musical ideas, which is something that's been missing in our depleted cultural diet. In a world that's gone mad, this mesmerizing confection is like a balm, bewitching the listener with soothing reveries. For now, it stands as The Clientele's best.
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UncutSep 18, 2017What is startling is the abundance of new ideas and feeling of renewed vitality on Music For The Age Of Miracles, qualities that make the songs as compelling as any the band have recorded. [Oct 2017, p.34]
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Q MagazineSep 18, 2017A work of lovely, floaty wonder. [Oct 2017, p.103]
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MojoSep 18, 2017The gauzy seductive songs feel like euphoric conjuring, chinks in the doors of perceptions that reveal another hidden capital, a misty tapestry of late-night idylls, laced with a rapturous melancholy magic. [Oct 2017, p.91]
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Sep 18, 2017Music for The Age of Miracles is an excellent record and a level above Minotaur, without scaling the heights of their first four albums. More 2009’s Bonfires On The Heath than Suburban Light, perhaps.
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Sep 21, 2017The band's sound is, as ever, autumnal, reverb-rich, hazy, and utterly gorgeous indie-pop.
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MagnetSep 18, 2017By the time MacLean gets around to a spoken-word revisit to an old haunt, "The Museum Of Fog," you're happily along for the surreal ride. [No. 146, p.55]
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Sep 20, 2017You could probably get away with saying that Music for the Age of Miracles is pure, classic Clientele. If you hadn’t read about Anthony Harmer’s involvement, you’d be forgiving for overlooking his contributions entirely; he blends in that well.
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Sep 22, 2017A twelve-track exercise in mannerism that omits an essential element of what long made the Clientele so captivating. His wake-up call from pleasantry arrives too late to make much of Miracles.
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