Clichés is the fourth solo album released by American pop rock musician Alex Chilton.

In January 1992, Chilton was one of eight singer-songwriters (the others being Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Eric Andersen, David Olney, Pat Mears, Paul K, and Tom Pacheco) who participated in a short tour of the Netherlands where each artist performed solo.

He explained how the album came about to journalist Keith Spera in 1995: It was something I really hadn’t done too much, but I sort of enjoy doing it.

Trying to be like a folk singer or sing country blues didn’t feel as right as doing this kind of jazzy thing.

So that’s how it came about....[Engineer and studio owner] Keith [Keller] was really kind of great about doing the record.