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is the Clientele’s first album in seven years and also their most experimental, merging their reliably shimmering indie-pop melodies with contemporary classical, jazz, and electronic music. “We’d always been interested in music other than guitar music, like for donkey’s years,” frontman Alasdair MacLean explains. “None of those things had been able to find their way into our sound other than in the most passing way, in the faintest imprint … What happened with this record was that we bought a computer.”