The Sunday supplement: No. 72

A good 2005 pop album for summer, an app to put Paris in your living room, a mix of jump blues for the kitchen, a spy novel for the beach, and more

I listened to The Clientele when they first broke through, but I missed their 2005 album Strange Geometry. Thankfully, Ana Gabrilovska set me straight this week.

She writes:

July is a funny time for such an autumnal album to have found me, but the melodies are actually quite sunny so there is something slightly fitting about it. At any rate, I look forward to the chilled October morning when I’ll slip back into the romantic melancholy of this album’s world. I don’t know if this is a silly thing to say, but no band has ever reminded me so much and so well of the best parts of the Beatles.

Personally I see myself playing it straight through October.