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First Listen: The Clientele, 'Music For The Age Of Miracles'

Stream the sweetly spooky return of the soft-hearted British psych-poppers.

On their first full album in eight years, British psych-pop romantics The Clientele are more poetically spooky than ever. Their fragile, gently shimmering sound still bears the twin influences of wispy 1960s folk rock, a la Nick Drake, and the organic impressionism of British artists from the late 1800s/early 1900s, like painter John Atkinson Grimshaw and poet Edward Thomas. But just underneath the bucolic beauty lay darker dreams.

In 2011, frontman Alasdair MacLean put The Clientele on

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