Strange Geometry really gets under your skin and you'll wonder how you've managed without its lovely atmospheric tones.  Full text...

On previous Clientele records loneliness and romantic longing led to a hyper-aware state of quiet contemplation; here there's a vague suggestion of underlying violence.  Full text...

The restraint the whole band shows, on this, their most finished and instantly effective album, becomes something more than respectable: the Clientele's commitment to their own sound has crystallized into something almost wonderful.  Full text...

Strange Geometry is an album of continued and developed patterns which can still be mined and explored to the same lovely effects as their previous permutations.  Full text...

This new disc shows the band more confidently playing to its strengths.   Full text...

It's slow, thoughtful and dreamy folk-pop, run through some vintage gear and effects pedals, and served with dry toast and a sensible jam.  Full text...

Strange Geometry, has what sounds to me like a soprano's voice warbling throughout a cathedral, complete with the echo of footsteps in and out of the chamber.   Full text...

Talented or not, though, the band's second album, Strange Geometry, is a textbook case of the sophomore slump.  Full text...

There's no indication that the band has made any creative progress since The Violet Hour, and while everything here is beautiful and grandiose on a small scale, the lack of forward motion may doom them to continued obscurity.  Full text...