The Clientele | I Am Not There Any More | Blue Vinyl LP | Rough

Merge Records release I Am Not There Anymore, The Clientele\u2019s first new record in six years. Over The Clientele\u2019s 32-year career, critics and fans have described their songs with words like \u201Cethereal,\u201D \u201Cshimmering,\u201D \u201Chazy,\u201D \u201Cpretty,\u201D and \u201Cfragile.\u201D Their singer, guitarist, and lyricist, Alasdair MacLean, has his own interpretation of the effect his music creates. \u201CIt\u2019s that feeling of not being there,\u201D he says. \u201CWhat\u2019s really been in all the Clientele records is a sense of not actually inhabiting the moment your body is in.\u201D I Am Not There Anymore, regularly evokes what MacLean calls \u201Cthe feeling of not being real.\u201D Many of the songs were inspired by MacLean\u2019s memories of the early summer in 1997, when his mother died, but also represent The Clientele pushing towards a new sonic frontier as a band, experimenting over the course of a three-year recording period. Of this stret.