« looney tunes and your ethics | Main | King Boduin »
March 07, 2006
floral print afternoon
The Clientele - (I Want You) More Than Ever
For a long time, I had the theory that the notes in this song, the ones that really matter (they all do), emerged by the process of spontaneous generation, proving Aristotle correct. Listen to the way the guitar just falls into the air at the beginning; it's hard for me to imagine that sound as a conjunction of hands and strings. It's just there- the particular reverb-soaked style that the band favors makes their songs so smooth and edgeless, and it becomes hard to get a handle on what are normally the easily identifiable discontinuities between guitar, drums, bass and voice.
'(I Want You) More Than Ever' comes closest (at least of the songs on "Suburban Light") to perfecting the kind of summertime purple-skied dusk that the band strives for, and I'll say that, personally, this song is most tightly associated with memories of riding around in a car (as a passenger), staring out the window, mulling over random and (in retrospect) trite anxieties.
You can buy "Suburban Light" right here.
Posted by Kevin at March 7, 2006 10:10 AM