Clientele, The - Music for the Age of Miracles - New LP

Included in:
-Flood Magazine's Best Albums of 2017 (#20)
-PopMatters' Best Indie Pop of 2017 (#5)
-Aquarium Drunkard's 2017 Year in Review
-Associated Press' Overlooked Albums of 2017

Featuring cover art by renowned British artist Carel Weight

• housed in a matte finish jacket. Lyrics are printed on a card stock inner sleeve.

Music for the Age of Miracles marks the band’s first new album in seven years.

This time around, Anthony Harmer joins the line-up of Alasdair MacLean (vocals, guitar), James Hornsey (bass), and Mark Keen (drums, piano, percussion), contributing string and brass arrangements as well as guitars, vocals, keyboards, saz, and Santoor.

All songs by Alasdair MacLean and The Clientele, except * by Mark Keen
‘Falling Asleep’ words adapted from the poem by Siegfried Sassoon

Strings and brass arranged and conducted by Anthony Harmer
Supplementary arrangements by Mark Keen and Alasdair MacLean
Scored by Chris Taylor
Trumpet solo on ‘Everything You See Tonight Is Different From Itself’ by Leon Beckenham
Recorded at Bark Studio, Tin Room Studios and Outcast Studios, London, by Brian O’Shaughnessy, Shuta Shinoda and Anthony Harmer
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston, MA
Assistant Mastering Engineer: Maria Rice
Design by Daniel Murphy
Cover painting: The Battersea Park Tragedy (1974) by Carel Weight. By permission of Bridgeman Images.

Alasdair MacLean: guitars, vocals, tapes
Anthony Harmer: santur, guitars, saz, vocals, piano, keyboards, percussion and beats
James Hornsey: bass
Mark Keen: drums, piano, percussion

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Barbara Bartz: violin
Leon Beckenham: trumpet
Freddie Bois: trumpet
Joyce Efia Harmer: descant recorder
Anne Gray: tenor recorder
Mary Lattimore: harp
Sebastian Millett: cello
Lupe Núñez-Fernández: vocals
Dave Oxley: French horn

The Clientele use Acid Fuzz guitar pedals

‘Here, among the waning, be, in the realm of decline
be a ringing glass that shivers even as it rings’