#FortnightFridayMusic
Jan 9 2026
I’m going for another #window

The Clientele, “From a Window” from Suburban Light (2001)

Breaking with my policy of a single selection for these Friday music posts because I've featured so many downtempo tracks and I don’t want to be too one-note, and I find this one irresistible!

#TheClientele can sound so #BritishInvasion-y that they could come off as shtick, if they weren’t so good at it. Here their echoey vocals suggest a 60s recording played on AM radio, and though there’s just a single melodic vocal line - is it the harmonics of this technique? - it somehow hits me like fully harmonized #PowerPop, floating over their basic but pristinely recorded 3-piece rock.

Bonus: The album cover lets this post do double duty for #FensterFreitag / #WindowFriday.

https://theclientele.bandcamp.com/track/from-a-window-2

Selected influences (part 1)

#Radiohead #TheVerve #Verve #Debussy #Satie #Ravel #Pixies #TheClientele #Deerhunter #Doves #PearlJam #U2 #ThomYorke #DevendraBanhart #JonnyGreenwood #Grouplove #TameImpala #Slowdive #Violens #Suede #Ride #TheBeatles #Beatles #Björk #Bjork #JorgeElbrecht #CocteauTwins #FlyingLotus #Beck #TheStoneRoses #StoneRoses #Oasis #OtherLives #NoJoy #TheSmiths #Tamaryn #GrizzlyBear #SigurRós #SigurRos #Swervedriver #Japan #LUNASEA #AnnaCalvi #Dungen #BoardsOfCanada #REM #Elbow