God Save The Clientele!

¡Así se titulará el nuevo lp de the Clientele!

Se publicará en Marzo. Y Anuncian también la incorporación de una violinista (en la foto) como miembro oficial del grupo:

The new Clientele record will be recorded in Nashville in September, with Marky Nevers producing. Expect more Louis Philippe string arrangments and a slightly funkier feel. ‘God Save The Clientele’ to be ready to come caress our ears in spring 2007.  

Florence: I read somewhere that you’ve written a disco track.
Is that to be included on the album? Alasdair: Yes. It’s got a very good string arrangement by Louis Philippe, who has done something incredibly pompous on top of it, so it’s now a proper disco song! Florence: Does it sit well with the rest of the album?
Alasdair: Absolutely not!

“It’s quite a schizophrenic album anyway compare to our usual style but we’ll probably still get accused of sounding the same as ever! so we’ve got a big string sound this time. It’s more of a Scott Walker type sound than an ‘Eleanor Rigby’ type sound!
 

Were you happy to let Louis Philippe take over your record and eventually change your sound? Alasdair: We gave him complete carte blanche and told him to do whatever he wanted to do. As a result he came up with some very unusual arrangements.
This will be the first record we haven’t mixed ourselves. We’ve made 2 or 3 records that had a similar mood all the way through, going deeper and deeper into an emotion but I wanted this one to be good humoured. I was happy to do my part and then give it to people more talented than me...I can’t write strings like Louis Philippe can write strings and I can’t record music like Marky Nevers [Lambchop] can record music...so I let them use their talent to add something to it and do something different. Pat [from Wilco] came down for the sessions and he added a lot to what we did and I wasn’t even there, I was partying and we let him do what he wanted.  

The new member We let Mel do what she wanted...a group of collaborators and friends who could add an equal amount. Mel wrote to us, through ‘mySpace’ saying that if we ever needed strings...and then the next day Brian O’Shaughnessy who produced our last album and knew what we were looking for, called me and said “there is this girl who plays amazing violin who knows all about your band and you should call her!”. 

(Entrevista completa en flomotions.com)