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Alone & Unreal: The Best of the Clientele [Deluxe Edition] by The Clientele

The Clientele

Alone & Unreal: The Best of the Clientele [Deluxe Edition]

Release Date: Sep 4, 2015

Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop

Record label: Merge

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Album Review: Alone & Unreal: The Best of the Clientele [Deluxe Edition] by The Clientele

Exceptionally Good, Based on 3 Critics

AllMusic - 90
Based on rating 9/10

Since they began releasing records in the late '90s, the Clientele have been responsible for some of the most haunting, most pristine, and flat-out best indie pop imaginable. After a listen to Alone & Unreal: The Best of the Clientele, the case could easily be made that the group may be one of the best bands of their era period. Rankings and history aside, the collection gathers songs from each of the band's five albums, plus a song from a 2014 single, showing their progression from a spare, three-guys-in-a-bedroom-sound to the expansive string- and horn-filled experience they became in the end.

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PopMatters - 80
Based on rating 8/10

As far as most contemporary pop bands go, the Clientele have been consistently great. Take any album of theirs, select any track at random, and you’ll likely wind up listening to a miniature masterpiece of dreamy London-based indie pop with Alasdair MacLean’s gently whispering sweet nothings into your ear. So it’s odd that Unreal and Alone, the first and so far only compilation of the Clientele, is so brief.

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musicOMH.com - 80
Based on rating 4

Every art form, in every era, has its great lost talents. Individuals blessed with sublime ability that somehow, for reasons often hard to quantify, fail to connect with the wider audience their work so richly deserves. Sometimes the next generation can be more amenable. Take for example The Velvet Underground.

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