God Save The Clientele is the fourth studio album by British indiepop band The Clientele

The Clientele

The Clientele are a London-based British band with Alasdair MacLean on vocals and guitar, Mark Keen on drums, James Hornsey on bass and Mel Draisey on violin, keyboards, backing vocals and percussion....

. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

, it broadens the band's palette through the use of pedal steel and slide guitar

Slide guitar

Slide guitar or bottleneck guitar is a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide against the strings, while bottleneck refers to the original material of choice for such slides: the necks of glass bottles...

. The album is also the first to feature Mel Draisey as the official fourth member of the band. Pat Sansone

Pat Sansone

Pat Sansone is a multi-instrumentalist in the rock bands Wilco and The Autumn Defense.Sansone was born in Meridian, Mississippi...

 of Wilco

Wilco

Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois. The band was formed in 1994 by the remaining members of alternative country group Uncle Tupelo following singer Jay Farrar's departure. Wilco's lineup has changed frequently, with only singer Jeff Tweedy and bassist John...

 fame plays on the majority of the songs on God Save The Clientele. It was released on Merge Records

Merge Records

Merge Records is an independent record label based in Durham, North Carolina. It was founded in 1989 by Laura Ballance and Mac McCaughan. It began as a way to release music from their band Superchunk and music created by friends, and has expanded to include artists from around the world and records...

 on May 8, 2007 in the US, although it leaked onto the internet in March 2007. It was released in the UK in September 2007 by The Track & Field Organisation

The Track & Field Organisation

The Track & Field Organization is a London based independent record label, founded in 1999 by Steven Drew and Paul Wright. The label's first release was Kicker's "Said and Done" / "Chancifer" single, in April 2000, and The Tyde's debut album, Once, in March 2001.-Artists:* Beatnik Filmstars* The...

.

"Bookshop Casanova" was released as a single in the US, but no single was released in other territories.

Track listing

1. "Here Comes the Phantom" – 3:13
2. "I Hope I Know You" – 3:19
3. "Isn't Life Strange?" – 3:47
4. "The Dance of the Hours" – 2:08
5. "From Brighton Beach to Santa Monica" – 3:52
6. "Winter on Victoria Street" – 2:47
7. "The Queen of Seville" – 4:27
8. "These Days Nothing But Sunshine" – 3:25
9. "Somebody Changed" – 2:41
10. "No Dreams Last Night" – 3:05
11. "Carnival on 7th Street" – 2:09
12. "Bookshop Casanova" – 3:53
13. "The Garden at Night" – 1:44
14. "Dreams of Leaving" – 3:26

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2007	Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers Top Heatseekers refers to either of two separate "Breaking and Entering" music charts issued weekly by Billboard Magazine: the Heatseekers Albums chart or the Heatseekers Songs chart. They were introduced by Billboard in 1993 with the purpose of highlighting the sales by new and developing musical...	19
2007	Billboard Top Independent Albums	48