The Violet Hour is the proper debut album by 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....

, released in July 2003. Its title was taken from T. S. Eliot

T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns "T. S." Eliot OM was a playwright, literary critic, and arguably the most important English-language poet of the 20th century. Although he was born an American he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39.The poem that made his...

's poem, The Waste Land

The Waste Land

The Waste Land[A] is a 434-line[B] modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time, its...

. All songs were written by The Clientele except for "Jamaican Rum Rhumba" (traditional, arranged by The Clientele). The US release features two bonus enhanced videos for "House on Fire" and the single "Reflections After Jane."

Track listing

1. "The Violet Hour" – 4:55
2. "Voices in the Mall" – 2:09
3. "When You and I Were Young" – 3:50
4. "Missing" – 4:52
5. "Jamaican Rum Rhumba" – 1:21
6. "House on Fire" – 4:24
7. "Everybody's Gone" – 3:02
8. "Porcelain" – 3:34
9. "Haunted Melody" – 2:14
10. "Prelude" – 2:21
11. "Lamplight" – 6:44
12. "The House Always Wins" – 8:02
13. "Policeman Getting Lost" – 2:21
14. "Reflections After Jane" (bonus enhanced video)
15. "House on Fire" (bonus enhanced video)

Singles

• "House on Fire" (June 30, 2003)
  • b/w: "Jamaican Rum Rhumba" (Take Two) and "Breathing Soft and Low"