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November 7th, 2025
Black Vinyl
The Clientele’s debut album The Violet Hour reissued 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.
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. 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. 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.
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The Violet Hour 04:55
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Voices in the Mall 02:09 | ||
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When You and I Were Young 03:50
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Missing 04:52
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Jamaican Rum Rhumba 01:20
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House on Fire 04:23
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Everybody's Gone 03:02
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Porcelain 03:33
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Haunted Melody 02:13
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Prelude 02:21
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Lamplight 06:43
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The House Always Wins 08:02
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Policeman Getting Lost 02:19
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