The Clientele - The Violet Hour (2003) - New LP Record 2025 Merge Vinyl - Indie Rock / Experimental
On November 11, 2025, Merge Records reissues The Clientele’s debut album The Violet Hour on Merge vinyl for the very first time. Long out of print and highly sought after since its initial 2003 UK issue on Pointy, this LP pressing marks the first time The Violet Hour has been widely available on the format in North America.Following the breakthrough success of Suburban Light, the 2001 collection of The Clientele’s initial singles and EPs, tastemakers and aficionados were (drums, piano), and James Hornsey (bass) could make if set loose inside a studio to record a full-length album. What they emerged with from London’s Medina Road Studios in the fall of 2002 was tantalizing: Their already sharply realized motif of ’60s psychedelia and modern fuzz-pop took on inflections of jazz, particularly in how the space afforded by the LP format allowed for a keener articulation of atmosphere.The Clientele stretch the early evening of The Violet Hour out infinitely, manipulating the structured time of the pop song the way poets manipulate the structure of language—to capture place, mood, stray thoughts, disappointments, potential, and, above all, longing. It is a shimmering jewel of a record, its languid melodies and reverb-drenched choruses at once sublime and tragic, its hazy, dreamlike discursions at once recalling the warmth of a favorite record played over a midsummer rainstorm while yearning for the mist-veiled future of a yet unwritten night. The Violet Hour has endured decades later as a signature album in The Clientele’s catalog, not only perfecting the sound that made the band a message-board phenomenon but revealing entirely new depth to it. In its wake, it was no longer possible to declare them one of the best-kept secrets in indie pop. The Clientele were, and remain, one of the genre’s most important figures, and The Violet Hour was, and remains, one of their most vital statements: a lush invitation to their underground.
The Clientele – The Violet Hour
Genre: |
Rock, Pop |
|---|---|
Style: |
Indie Rock, Ethereal, Indie Pop |
Year: |
| The Violet Hour | 4:55 | ||
| Voices In The Mall | 2:09 | ||
| When You And I Were Young | 3:50 | ||
| Missing | 4:52 | ||
| Jamaican Rum Rhumba | 1:21 | ||
| Lamplight | 6:44 | ||
| House On Fire | 4:24 | ||
| Everybody's Gone | 3:02 | ||
| Porcelain | 3:34 | ||
| Haunted Melody | 2:14 | ||
| Prelude | 2:21 | ||
| The House Always Wins | 8:02 | ||
| Policeman Getting Lost | 2:19 | ||
| House On Fire | |||
| Reflections After Jane |
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The Clientele - The Violet Hour (2003) - New LP Record 2025 Merge Vinyl - Indie Rock / Experimental
The Clientele - The Violet Hour (2003) - New LP Record 2025 Merge Vinyl - Indie Rock / Experimental
On November 11, 2025, Merge Records reissues The Clientele’s debut album The Violet Hour on Merge vinyl for the very first time. Long out of print and highly sought after since its initial 2003 UK issue on Pointy, this LP pressing marks the first time The Violet Hour has been widely available on the format in North America.Following the breakthrough success of Suburban Light, the 2001 collection of The Clientele’s initial singles and EPs, tastemakers and aficionados were (drums, piano), and James Hornsey (bass) could make if set loose inside a studio to record a full-length album. What they emerged with from London’s Medina Road Studios in the fall of 2002 was tantalizing: Their already sharply realized motif of ’60s psychedelia and modern fuzz-pop took on inflections of jazz, particularly in how the space afforded by the LP format allowed for a keener articulation of atmosphere.The Clientele stretch the early evening of The Violet Hour out infinitely, manipulating the structured time of the pop song the way poets manipulate the structure of language—to capture place, mood, stray thoughts, disappointments, potential, and, above all, longing. It is a shimmering jewel of a record, its languid melodies and reverb-drenched choruses at once sublime and tragic, its hazy, dreamlike discursions at once recalling the warmth of a favorite record played over a midsummer rainstorm while yearning for the mist-veiled future of a yet unwritten night. The Violet Hour has endured decades later as a signature album in The Clientele’s catalog, not only perfecting the sound that made the band a message-board phenomenon but revealing entirely new depth to it. In its wake, it was no longer possible to declare them one of the best-kept secrets in indie pop. The Clientele were, and remain, one of the genre’s most important figures, and The Violet Hour was, and remains, one of their most vital statements: a lush invitation to their underground.
The Clientele – The Violet Hour
Genre: |
Rock, Pop |
|---|---|
Style: |
Indie Rock, Ethereal, Indie Pop |
Year: |
| The Violet Hour | 4:55 | ||
| Voices In The Mall | 2:09 | ||
| When You And I Were Young | 3:50 | ||
| Missing | 4:52 | ||
| Jamaican Rum Rhumba | 1:21 | ||
| Lamplight | 6:44 | ||
| House On Fire | 4:24 | ||
| Everybody's Gone | 3:02 | ||
| Porcelain | 3:34 | ||
| Haunted Melody | 2:14 | ||
| Prelude | 2:21 | ||
| The House Always Wins | 8:02 | ||
| Policeman Getting Lost | 2:19 | ||
| House On Fire | |||
| Reflections After Jane |
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On November 11, 2025, Merge Records reissues The Clientele’s debut album The Violet Hour on Merge vinyl for the very first time. Long out of print and highly sought after since its initial 2003 UK issue on Pointy, this LP pressing marks the first time The Violet Hour has been widely available on the format in North America.Following the breakthrough success of Suburban Light, the 2001 collection of The Clientele’s initial singles and EPs, tastemakers and aficionados were (drums, piano), and James Hornsey (bass) could make if set loose inside a studio to record a full-length album. What they emerged with from London’s Medina Road Studios in the fall of 2002 was tantalizing: Their already sharply realized motif of ’60s psychedelia and modern fuzz-pop took on inflections of jazz, particularly in how the space afforded by the LP format allowed for a keener articulation of atmosphere.The Clientele stretch the early evening of The Violet Hour out infinitely, manipulating the structured time of the pop song the way poets manipulate the structure of language—to capture place, mood, stray thoughts, disappointments, potential, and, above all, longing. It is a shimmering jewel of a record, its languid melodies and reverb-drenched choruses at once sublime and tragic, its hazy, dreamlike discursions at once recalling the warmth of a favorite record played over a midsummer rainstorm while yearning for the mist-veiled future of a yet unwritten night. The Violet Hour has endured decades later as a signature album in The Clientele’s catalog, not only perfecting the sound that made the band a message-board phenomenon but revealing entirely new depth to it. In its wake, it was no longer possible to declare them one of the best-kept secrets in indie pop. The Clientele were, and remain, one of the genre’s most important figures, and The Violet Hour was, and remains, one of their most vital statements: a lush invitation to their underground.
The Clientele – The Violet Hour
Genre: |
Rock, Pop |
|---|---|
Style: |
Indie Rock, Ethereal, Indie Pop |
Year: |
| The Violet Hour | 4:55 | ||
| Voices In The Mall | 2:09 | ||
| When You And I Were Young | 3:50 | ||
| Missing | 4:52 | ||
| Jamaican Rum Rhumba | 1:21 | ||
| Lamplight | 6:44 | ||
| House On Fire | 4:24 | ||
| Everybody's Gone | 3:02 | ||
| Porcelain | 3:34 | ||
| Haunted Melody | 2:14 | ||
| Prelude | 2:21 | ||
| The House Always Wins | 8:02 | ||
| Policeman Getting Lost | 2:19 | ||
| House On Fire | |||
| Reflections After Jane |
