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The Clientele, reliably dreamy for decades, tears up its delicate formula

The long-running British band introduces drum-and-bass-tinged breakbeats, strings and dub production to its delicate indie pop.
The Clientele's <em>I Am Not There Anymore</em> is out July 28.

From the late '90s onward, built a cult following around its amiably spooky, softly psychedelic sound — the aural equivalent of driving a '68 Mini Cooper down rain-slicked roads toward a midnight aficionados — only slowing down its output after 2010's . But spends 64 minutes gleefully lobbing a succession of musical monkey wrenches into the delicate patterns the British band has developed in its quarter-century of recording.

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