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The Violet Hour is extremely pleasant and may be one of this year’s surprise hit records. I hope so because the world could use a little beauty and peacefulness.
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Half-formed thoughts, departed lovers, music on the gramophone, the sun's last rays.
The Violet Hour is one of the best songs I've heard across all genres. Pure brilliance.
i really wanted to like this...
it's not that i don't like it...i just wish i could like it more than i do. there are so many interesting melodies and ideas in this record but almost none of them come together in any interesting or meaningful way.
the tremolo guitars are yet again excellent. i don't mind the lead singer's voice but i do think it gets slightly tiresome at points. the production is wistful and a little sleepy but it's fine and decent enough.
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It's as if it's Christmas for The Clientele treating us with another set of pretty lullabies on 'The Violet Hour'.
FAVORITE TRACKS: MISSING, EVERYBODY'S GONE, LAMPLIGHT, THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS, POLICEMAN GETTING LOST.
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Track List
- The Violet Hour
- Voices in the Mail
- When You and I Were Young
- Missing
- Jamaican Run Rhumba
- House on Fire
- Everybody's Gone
- Porcelain
- Haunted Melody
- Prelude
- Lamplight
- The House Always Wins
- Policeman Getting Lost
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Added on: December 20, 2013