Patrick Cleandenim - Days Without Rain (video)

Directed by Patrick Cleandenim. Also coming soon:

"We are nearing completion on The Scurimobile (Dir. Patrick Cleandenim) and it is set to be premiered in New York City in early December. The Scurimobile is an epic, Biblical tragedy set in 17th Century Italy, as performed by The Nile Room Stage Co. in 21st Century New York. It features Ingrid Schram, Philip John Velasco Gabriel, Georgia Gardner Gray, Loren Kramar and more!"

Patrick Cleandenim and the Living Image can also be seen appearing live this month:


12 Oct 2007 22:00
Triad Theatre New York, New York
19 Oct 2007 15:00
Cakeshop New York, New York
25 Oct 2007 20:00
Black Cat / w. Jens Lekman DC, Washington DC
27 Oct 2007 20:00
Webster Hall / w. Jens Lekman New York, New York

Patrick Cleandenim - Time Out (NY)

"As for opener Patrick Cleandenim, you wouldn’t think a guy in his early twenties would have such a developed sense of what separates retro from classic. But Cleandenim’s new Baby Comes Home (Ba Da Bing) re-creates the energy of so many strains of ’60s pop so effectively that we’ve come to believe the guy’s real success was in building a time machine, enabling him to take notes from Spector, Axelrod and Tony Mottola. Every song on Baby has a gentle dramatic sweep and classic pop snap. " Time Out (New York)

recent listening

REM Chronic Town (IRS) Mini LP
Beirut Elephant Gun (4AD) 7"
Pigbag Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag (Y/Rough Trade) 7"
Proud Simon Shoestring Universe (Proud Simon) CD
Cherry Ghost Mathematics (Heavenly) 7"
Ghosty Answers (forthcoming album!) CD
The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always (Warner Bros) LP
Television Adventure (Elektra) LP
REM Automatic For The People (Warner Bros) LP
Prefab Sprout Protest Songs (Kitchenware) LP
Fleetwood Mac Rumours (Warner Bros) LP

Pitchfork reviews Baby Comes Home

Pitchfork have given Patrick Cleandenim's Baby Comes Home an extremely positive review

"Ba Da Bing, which has shown a recent tendency toward the young and retro-dignified (Beirut, Essie Jain), finds its next constituent in 22-year old Lawrence, Kansas expat and Bobby Darin aspirant Patrick Cleandenim. His first LP under this moniker (his parents named him Patrick Clendenin Roberts), Baby Comes Home, was recorded throughout 2005 with significant help from enrollees in the University of Kansas' music department. Cleandenim recruited dozens of Jayhawks to serve as his backing band, and Baby's lush brass and strings reflect it. Studio time was tight, with recording sessions taking place during the graveyard shift-- only appropriate for a record with several songs that lurk through the darker side of the high life."

read the rest of the review here

Patrick Cleandenim - Sixeyes

The SIXEYES Blog has caught the Cleandenim bug, here's what they say,

"Listen up! What Zach Condon did for Balkan gypsy in the field of indie music, so Patrick Cleandenim (Patrick Clendenin Roberts) will do for minor key swingin' orchestral sixties pop. Indie label Ba Da Bing shows us all they're the real deal by first snagging Condon and now Cleandenim. I've got to admit that the idea of reviving this musical era and style left me cold at first, but after a few more listens over the past couple of weeks I've begun to see the light. This guy is gonna bring back the sing-a-long in cars on the way to the beach and on grey rainy Sundays, he's going to make us all feel like we're in our own private musical, which, and we can only hope, will kill karaoke for good (or, even better, Hollywood musicals), and he's going to turn some heads and prick some ears. But I've got a feeling this fellow won't stick to one style, he'll surprise with his next effort I'm sure.

Cleandenim is living in New York and he and his new band, Living Image, will be doing a few shows in the coming weeks in support of Baby Comes Home, check their myspace.

"I saw you walking with the vampire last night..." , so begins the opening cut, "Baby Comes Home", and if you let it, the music will sink it's teeth in and won't let go. "

Patrick Cleandenim and The Living Image - Live

Patrick Cleandenim and his new band The Living Image are playing four shows in New York in the coming weeks.

Sway
15 Aug 2007, 22:00
305 Spring Street (Between Hudson and Greenwich), New York, 10003

Admission is FREE

Sound Fix record store

24 Aug 2007, 20:00
110 Bedford Ave. (N. 11th.), New York,
Cost : Free

White Rabbits will perform at 10pm.

Mercury Lounge

30 Aug 2007, 19:30

On stage 7.30 pm! $10

Galapagos Art Space

13 Sep 2007, 22:00
70 N. 6th (Between Kent and Wythe), New York, 11211

Audiversity on Patrick Cleandenim

"To say Baby Comes Home is a promising solo debut is putting it lightly; this is a phenomenal debut of sheer (and somewhat already met) potential."

Read the whole article here

Baby Comes Home - Hartford Courant review

The Hartford Courant which is Connecticut's largest daily newspaper has reviewed Baby Comes Home.


PATRICK CLEANDENIM
Baby Comes Home
Ba Da Bing

Patrick Cleandenim hit 21 just as he finished recording "Baby Comes Home." That's slightly disturbing, given how mature the album is. The ambitious Cleandenim dishes out stately, orchestral pop like a young Burt Bacharach, though he's more likely to cite David Axelrod and Phil Spector as influences. Using University of Kansas music students for string and horn sections, the album boasts an unlikely alchemy of spirited Motown and baroque confessionals, imbued with the playfulness of bubblegum.

Yet darkness often descends, whether Cleandenim is crooning about poisoned cognac and caviar (with a sassy backup singer to boot) or pondering the difference between the drugs in various cities. Without a trace of emotion he sings, `I didn't have a clue what we were coming to / Until you said `I'm gone.'" That this all happens over such a classic-sounding backdrop makes it more unnerving still.

Cleandenim holds court from the bench of his piano, delivering pitch-black lyrics in the smoothest of voices as flurries of instruments sweep around him. That the album was recorded during the graveyard shift may explain its sinister vibe, but it's harder to fathom how a no-name 20-year-old crafted a stunning debut with eerie depth.

- DOUG WALLEN

Patrick Cleandenim and The Living Image - Live in NYC

If you're lucky enough to be in NYC over the next few days you can catch Patrick Cleandenim with his new band The Living Image not once but twice in the space of three days.

































On the Broken Horse stereo:

Spacemen 3 Walking With Jesus (Glass) 12"
Violent Femmes It's Gonna Rain (Slash) 7"
Weezer Hash Pipe (Geffen) 7"
The Velvet Underground Another View (Polydor) CD
Oddfellows Casino Giant Redwoods (Pickled Egg) 7"
Felt Forever Breathes The Lonely Word (Creation) LP

Patrick Cleandenim - So Far, So Good

Still not bought Baby Comes Home? OK, let's see if any of these guys can persuade you.

“I honestly can't imagine how Patrick Cleandenim will ever be able to follow this work up, as debuts of this caliber are pretty rare. No use worrying about that now, however, as this album has far from overstayed its welcome in my CD player. Baby Come Home is one of those records that reveals itself a little more with each listen, and I'm still listening” Other Music (NYC)

“He enlisted a cast of old pals and some music students and this timeless, cracking album resulted….The collision of expansive arrangements, smart songwriting and slightly amateurish sound quality makes for something truly original” (The Times)

“Music that swings (remember that?), all sleighbells, vibraphone, and sophisticated brass and vocal parts, topped off by Cleandenim's rich delivery and lush strings, testament to his skills as a classic-pop arranger based on an encyclopedic knowledge of everything from Motown to movie soundtracks to gritty mid-60s R&B.”

(The Guardian)

“An unexpected gem of an album” (WORD magazine)

“This newcomer has created a songbook with class, Rat Pack sass and a self assuredness that will make the Scissor Sisters check their shadow” (The Stool Pigeon)

“Cleandenim has crafted a magnificent album” (Alternative Ulster)

“Like debuts by The Strokes, Oasis, and even The Beatles, Baby Comes Home is a wall-to-wall clinic in songwriting…It’s an instant classic – a page from pop’s golden era brought to life in the 21st century” (Daytrotter)

.“Patrick Cleandenim will remind you of The Association, David Axelrod, Marvin Gaye, Bobby Darin, Prefab Sprout, early Todd Rundgren, ELO with soul and any number of legendary Brill Building singers and songwriters. The connection between The Delfonics and Rufus Wainwright, Cleandenim's debut is big and sweeping and oh so Sixties. The stunning album is called Baby Comes Home “(Some Velvet Blog)

“it's certainly only a matter of time before Patrick Cleandenim's big tunes are big news.” (Turn The Page)

“'Baby Comes Home' is so utterly accomplished, it comes over like a master-class in songwriting, albeit a very enjoyable one.” (Urban Junkies)

“For the second year in a row, it seems that the small Ba Da Bing! Records has a big time winner on its hands.. Who knows where he'll go from here, but this is one heck of a great start.” (Almost Cool)

“one of the most authentic pop albums in what feels like decades.” (Rant Magazine)

“Like Scott Walker joining arms with Divine Comedy, 'Baby Comes Home' has a depth and eloquence above and beyond.” (Flux)

“Patrick Cleandenim is an orchestral pop prodigy and Baby Comes Home should be your new best friend” (Swell)

Other Music on Patrick Cleandenim

New York City's premier independent music store Other Music has been heaping praise on Baby Comes Home

"Looks like Ba Da Bing!'s got quite a knack for discovering young up-and-coming crooners, what with the 2006 success story of Zach Condon (a/k/a Beirut) and his gypsy folk-inspired indie pop and now, a year later, Patrick Cleandenim, who's just released this surprisingly ambitious debut. Like Condon, it's impossible not to be impressed with the songwriting chops of this 22-year-old who possesses a voice that sounds to be a natural cross between Rufus Wainwright and Todd Rundgren. But rather than going to the Balkans for musical inspiration this Lawrence, Kansas native sticks a little closer to home, delivering a swinging piano-driven full-length that's much more American-influenced, with strong elements of Tin Pan Alley, Burt Bacharach, and Rat Pack-era orchestration thanks to his lively 12-piece backing band.

In this day and age, it would be easy to imagine all of these pieces of the puzzle coming together as some sort of ironic pastiche better suited for the '90s-era bachelor pad, but Baby Come Home stays faithful to the form and remains perfectly suited for these modern times as well. The self-titled opening track kicks the album off with the same swagger as "(You Give Me) Fever," but Cleandenim and his band quickly turn the song into a jaunty, sexy number involving vampires and werewolves. On the surface, his lyrics are simple and romantic, but his gift is turning easy rhymes into detailed stories with plenty of dark twists. "Cognac and Caviar" sounds like a plot lifted from an old Thin Man movie, where Cleandenim plans the murder of his love interest's boyfriend -- "I'll put poison in his cognac and caviar" -- following up with the promise that "if you can find a hideaway, I'll take you there." The crown jewel of Baby Come Home is surely "Days Without Rain," a dramatically lush psych-pop song with dense harmonies and waltzing strings that head for the cinematic scope of Jean-Claude Vannier. Meanwhile, Cleandenim uses the song title as an effective, heartbreaking metaphor, where he begs his lover to come home in the morning, "before our love begins to dry away."

I honestly can't imagine how Patrick Cleandenim will ever be able to follow this work up, as debuts of this caliber are pretty rare. No use worrying about that now, however, as this album has far from overstayed its welcome in my CD player. Baby Come Home is one of those records that reveals itself a little more with each listen, and I'm still listening. " Gerald Hammill

His Name is Really Patrick Cleandenim

The Some Velvet Blog has been raving about Baby Comes Home

"Patrick Cleandenim will remind you of The Association, David Axelrod, Marvin Gaye, Bobby Darin, Prefab Sprout, early Todd Rundgren, ELO with soul and any number of legendary Brill Building singers and songwriters. The connection between The Delfonics and Rufus Wainwright, Cleandenim's debut is big and sweeping and oh so Sixties. The stunning album is called Baby Comes Home and is finally out here in the States on Ba Da Bing!. It's a new styley! Indie-easy listening that has as much in common with Ray Conniff as it does with Belle & Sebastian.

A native of Lawrence, Kansas, Cleandenim got his musical start in the Radiohead influenced Clockwork before going solo in 2002. Moving to New York to study, he recorded the album in 2005 and it's an ambitious, infectious collection of orch-pop. "

original article here

current listening:

The Broken Family Band Balls (Track & Field) CD
The Autumn Defense Circles (Cooking Vinyl) CD
Leonard Cohen Greatest Hits (CBS) LP
Dumb Angels Love & Mercy (Fierce) 7"

Patrick Cleandenim - Rant interview

Patrick Cleandenim has been interviewed by Rant Magazine


Playlist:














The Broken Family Band - Leaps
The Swimmers - Pocket Full of Gold
Bishop Allen - Rain
Beulah - Emma Blowgun's Last Stand
The Yellow Moon Band - Entangled
OK Jones - Deep Sea Divers
Bright Eyes - Four Winds
Elvis Perkins - While You Were Sleeping
The Autumn Defense - We Would Never Die
Buffalo Tom - You'll Never Catch Her
Candidate - Furlough
The Clientele - The Garden At Night
The Broken Family Band - Julian
David Vandervelde - Dancing Sea Gulls Instrumental

TV:









The Wire (HBO) Series 1, 2 and 3.

Patrick Cleandenim - Live in NYC

Patrick Cleandenim plays his first shows this week in New York & Brooklyn.

3rd July 2007, 19:00

131 E. 10th Street at 2nd Ave., New York City, 10003
Cost : $5

Benefit for St. Mark's Church with Lissy Trullie, The Virgins, and more!

4th July 2007, 14:00
345 Grand (Between Havemeyer & Marcy), Brooklyn, 11211
Cost : $5

The Minetta, Patrick Cleandenim, Woodwose, Greg Weeks, Lights, Inoculist, Free BBQ, $2 Beers!

Patrick Cleandenim - Almost Cool

With just a few weeks before the U.S release of Baby Comes Home on Ba Da Bing! the widely read Almost Cool blog has given the album an excellent review and tipped Patrick to follow the success by label mate Zach Condon of Beirut.

"For the second year in a row, it seems that the small Ba Da Bing! Records has a big time winner on its hands. Last year, the rough, but charming debut album from Beirut (Gulag Orkestar) showed off a budding young talent in Zach Condon, and I'm going to officially be one of many to proclaim Mr. Patrick Cleandenim (not sure if that's his real name) one of the young shining stars of 2007. After playing with local bands in Kansas, he found himself in New York city attending the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Arts. Like the album title states, though, he came home, and spent the wee hours of the day recording his debut album with the help of some friends and the goodwill of some college music students.

For starters, Baby Comes Home sounds big. It has a wide range of influences, most of them coming before the year 1970. You can hear a little bit of early Scott Walker, a bit of British Invasion, some doo-wop, and big band orchestral pop. It's ambitious as heck, and yet it rarely stumbles, keeping a brisk pace that finds eleven tracks clocking in at just under forty minutes. The album-titled "Baby Comes Home" starts the release with just the right amount of swagger as piano and horns play off one another nicely as crisp drums keep things moving. Cleandenim's vocals are suitably crooner, and by the time the string flourishes and looser ending hit, it's easy to get sucked in.

"Hypnotized" follows, and picks up the pace with some more sharp drumming, bursts of horns, and piano stomps. Vocals are a bit sharper on the track as well, moving from the loose style of the first track into a snappier observer, and the jubilant instrumentation (which is layered with everything from hand-claps and vibes) is again lush and hyper-melodic. Essentially, the rest of the album works this sort of retro cool vibe, but keeps things interesting by mixing up the instrumentation and feel of the songs nicely. "Days Without Rain" is a perfect example, with the ubiquitous piano and drums backed by dreamy swoops of strings and backing vocals that turn it into an almost lounge track that absolutely sparkles.

While there are a few tracks that feel more like glorified homages, most of Baby Comes Home is not only nicely informed of the past, but has enough slight updates to make it stand out. The rough-edged "Whispers Only Hurt Them" is a perfect example, with a dual piano / Rhodes and slightly distorted vocals that slightly fray the edges of the otherwise smooth song. This is one of those rare debut releases that's very assured, and while it has a few very minor missteps, it's also an enjoyable blast. Who knows where he'll go from here, but this is one heck of a great start."

rating: 8.5

Patrick Cleandenim - Word Magazine

Patrick Cleandenim's Until You Said I'm Gone is featured on the CD accompanying the July issue of The Word alongside the likes of Mavis Staples, The Aliens, Nick Lowe, Suzanne Vega and Meg Baird.

recent listening:

The Clientele God Save The Clientele (Merge) CD
The Broken Family Band Hello Love (Track & Field) CD
Candidate Oxengate (Snowstorm) CD
Bishop Allen & The Broken String (Dead Oceans) CD
Beachwood Sparks Midsummer's Daydream (Sub Pop) 7"
Beulah When Your Heartstrings Break (Shifty Disco) CD
Dawn Landes Two Three Four (Boy Scout) CD
The Cribs Men's Needs, Women's Needs, Whatever (Wichita) CD
OK Jones Push/Pull (Centropolis) CD

Patrick Cleandenim - Swell magazine

recent listening:

The Broken Family Band Hello Love (Track & Field) CD
Candidate Oxengate (Snowstorm) CD
OK Jones Elephantoms (Centropolis) CD
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Straight To You (Mute) 7"
Seam Headsparks (City Slang) CD

Patrick Cleandenim - So You Think You're Gonna Live Forever (video)

Here's the video for the first radio single from Baby Comes Home, "So You Think You're Gonna Live Forever". It was shot in NYC and on location at Coney Island.


recent listening:

Espers The Weed Tree (Locust) CD
Galaxie 500 Peel Sessions (20/20/20) CD
Arcade Fire Neon Bible (Merge) CD
Death Vessel Stay Close (ATP) CD
Fun Boy Three Waiting (Chrysalis) LP

doleful lions - magic without tears (video)

This is the video for the brand new Doleful Lions track "Magic Without Tears". The song will be on their forthcoming album 7. The video was directed by occasional collaborator Col. Yet another example of head lion Jonathan Scott's endless pop genius, as I'm sure you will agree.

Patrick Cleandenim - The Guardian

Wednesday May 2, 2007
Guardian Unlimited





Hometown: New York City.

The line-up: Patrick Cleandenim is aided and abetted by several eccentrically monikered musicians including Oto Gillen and Nathan Whipple, which might be East Village rhyming slang. Or not.

The background: If you like orchestral pop - which you should, because it is without doubt one of the great contemporary music genres along with Lovers Rock, postpunk funk, avant-disco and symphonic soul - you should at least investigate the impossibly named Patrick Cleandenim, a 22-year-old New Yorker who grew up in Lawrence, Kansas with Bobby Darrin/Dion DiMucci-style doo-wop and rock'n'roll coursing through his veins, as well as an innate desire to encourage listeners to do jazz hands.

Cleandenim - or Hygienicjeans to his friends - attended the East Village Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art where he wrote and produced short films and music of cinematic scope - not that the end product always matched the grandness of his ambition. In 2003, he was a high school senior playing in a Radiohead-inspired trio called Clockwork, but he soon got that out of his system and re-immersed himself in Brill Building songcraft and Broadway theatricality to make the music you can now hear - at affordable prices, too! - on his debut album Baby Comes Home. Music with titles like Hollywood and Caviar & Cognac that reeks of spats, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers terpsichorean wonder and, well, caviar and cognac. Music that swings (remember that?), all sleighbells, vibraphone, and sophisticated brass and vocal parts, topped off by Cleandenim's rich delivery and lush strings, testament to his skills as a classic-pop arranger based on an encyclopedic knowledge of everything from Motown to movie soundtracks to gritty mid-60s R&B. Just don't use it as an opportunity to do jazz hands. Please.

The buzz: "Like debuts by the Strokes, Oasis and even the Beatles, Baby Comes Home is a wall-to-wall clinic in songwriting."

The truth: Forgive the pedantry, but the Beatles' debut wasn't actually much cop, but point taken.

Most likely to: Scare the baggy-suit pants off Rufus Wainwright.

Least likely to: Appeal to lovers of death metal or industrial grindcore.

File next to: Runt-era Todd Rundgren, Neil Sedaka, Nilsson, David Vandervelde.

What to buy: Baby Comes Home is now out on Broken Horse.

Links: Official site MySpace page

Tomorrow's new band: I Was A King.

Paul Lester