Memphians may not be familiar with London’s The Clientele, but critics and reviewers everywhere (including us here at Loudersoft) have had their latest release, God Save The Clientele on frequent replay for weeks now. Creating dashing and daring 60’s-influenced pop medleys riddled with literary references, they have built a musical style and catalog of lovely harmonies and longing that peeks from behind the shaded windows to let the sunlight bleed in.

Appropriately, this tour brings them to the spiritual mecca that produced Big Star, a band whose influence is felt all over their newest record in uncompromising heaps. According to their press and biography information, this elicits a newly-uncovered “optimism” from their work; by any name, it makes God Save The Clientele another in a series of sketches capturing musical glimpses of pure beauty in their ever-growing drawing room. Along with one of our favorite artists of 2006, Baltimore’s etherial Beach House, and the newly-named The Third Man (formerly Augustine), I predict a show at The Hi-Tone tonight that will be both blissful and memorable.

The Clientele – “Bookshop Casanova”
The Clientele – “Somebody Changed”
Beach House – “Master of None”

You can purchase God Save The Clientele from iTunes by clicking here . You can purchase Beach House’s self-titled album by clicking here.

The Clientele on MySpace
Beach House on MySpace
The Third Man on MySpace

monday may 14th
9pm doors
$8 cover
Hi-Tone Memphis