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this post contains some solo performances by Alasdair Maclean of the Clientele

A few weeks ago Alasdair Maclean recorded a set of solo performances of Clientele songs for WFMU. Like most everything he does, it exists in some weird space that’s either springlike or utterly autumnal, usually both simultaneously, and it includes a performance of “Since K Got Over Me,” the song that had me convinced within three minutes that the Clientele were without a doubt the best British indie band to emerge this decade. I’m not as crazy about Bonfires as I am Strange Geometry (and everything else), but I’ll probably change my stance on this eventually like I did God Save the Clientele, which also turned out to be quite good.

Regardless, it’s November and it gets dark out early and I don’t know what the future looks like (though I’m pretty sure it looks fantastic), so all of this sounds all sorts of wonderful. As it turns out, reverb can be warming.

this post is about the future

So apparently this is happening. I don’t think I understand what could possibly be going on here, but it has Leslie Nielsen in it so I assume it has to do with that franchise.

this post is about the mmo that's also a credit card

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/visa/

this post is also about the Joanna Newsom record

So between replaying the Milk-Eyed Mender (it turns out that the middle section is really quite good in spite of my total lack of patience for anything that happens there), Ys, and every Van Dyke Parks record I can get ahold of, I started reading up on the forthcoming Joanna Newsom album that was premiered this spring, was supposed to come out this fall, but didn’t, given that no record came out and “New record out fall 2008 on Drag City” became “TBA” and the fall tour is an Australian summer tour instead (with Jens Lekman and Robert Forster opening one of the dates, which will likely be pretty wonderful).

But the new Joanna Newsom record is apparently done, “more down to earth,” less string-heavy, and it “might be a triple album.” From anyone else I’d be pretty displeased with the idea of a triple album, but for some reason I’m really not bothered by this at all. Only being able to work in 7-10 minute song structures must be a nuisance for everyone involved, especially whoever ends up laying out the 3LP (6LP?) version, and whoever’s willing to spend however much a 3LP (6LP?) set costs new in 2010.