In September, The Clientele released Music for the Age of Miracles, an album NPR Music proclaimed “perhaps their most musically ambitious” to date. The band will tour North America for the first time since 2014, and tickets for all dates are going fast! Watch and share the reflective new video for “The Neighbour” now and find the album in the Merge store, your local independent record store, and via these digital outlets.

Directed by Andy Willsher and shot on Super 8, the video for “The Neighbour” was filmed in London neighborhoods where the band spent much of their youth.

Alasdair writes:

We filmed around Lea Bridge Road and the Hackney Marshes. We lived there in the late ’90s when the area was the last stop on the line before homelessness and there were dead bears in the river, pushed in by travelling circuses. It’s now a hipster enclave but at night it’s still deserted, so we shot as the sun went down around warehouses and empty yuppie flats, along the River Lea and Millfields Park, in an attempt to copy the end scenes of The Eclipse by Antonioni. The band performance was shot in a house near Finsbury Park, where we were joined by Anthony Harmer on guitar and vocals and Sebastian Millett on cello. 

The Clientele on tour:
Oct 31 Toronto, ON – Great Hall 
Nov 02 Washington, DC – Rock & Roll Hotel
Nov 03 Philadelphia, PA – Boot & Saddle
Nov 04 Boston, MA – The Sinclair
Nov 05 Brooklyn, NY – The Bell House
Nov 07 Chicago, IL – Subterranean
Nov 09 Seattle, WA – Neumos
Nov 10 Portland, OR – Mississippi Studios
Nov 12 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
Nov 14 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
Mar 15 London, UK – The Scala