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The Clientele's I Am Not There Anymore regularly evokes what singer-guitarist Alasdair MacLean calls Inchthe feeling of not being real.Inch Recording for the album began in 2019 and continued piecemeal until 2022-in part because of the pandemic, but also because the band wanted to experiment. InchWe'd always been interested in music other than guitar music, like for donkey's years,Inch MacLean says. This time out, he and bassist James Hornsey and drummer Mark Keen incorporated elements of post-bop jazz, contemporary classical, and electronic music. According to MacLean, InchNone of those things had been able to find their way into our sound other than in the most passing way, in the faintest imprint.Inch This stretching out-what MacLean calls Incha leap forwards and to the sideInch-can be heard clearly in lead single InchBlue Over Blue,Inch with it's percussive samples and it's moments where the arrangement opens up suddenly into something cinematic in scope, with horns and strings. MacLean says I Am Not There Anymore is all about Inchthe memory of childhood but at the same time the impossibility of truly remembering childhood... or even knowing who or what you are.Inch Album Tracks 1. Fables of the Silverlink 2. Radial B 3. Garden Eye 4. Mantra 5. Segue 4 (IV) 6. Lady Grey 7. Dying in May 8. Conjuring Summer in 9. Radial C (Nocturne for Three Trees) 10. Blue Over Blue 11. Radial E 12. Claire's Not Real 13. My Childhood 14. Chalk Flowers 15. Radial H 16. Hey Siobhan 17. Stems of Anise 18. Through the Roses 19. I Dreamed of You, Maria 20. The Village Is Always on Fire
