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Track Listings
| 1. Memories |
| 2. Tomorrow |
| 3. Witch |
| 4. Free Not Free |
| 5. Shopping Bag |
| 6. Corpus Christi |
| 7. Emotions |
| 8. High Coin |
| 9. Mary And Eddie |
| 10. Winged Wheel |
| 11. Coda |
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COOL BRISTOLIAN INDIE ROCK This record is a celebration of the 600th anniversary of the Bristol Charter. A celebration of sheer joy, lapping at your froth. The dog at your hearth, the past to your present. This is it, this is you. Remember, let go of the rail, let get of the rail. We're ready, upstairs with the winch
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
When I went to see Radiohead many moons ago in Victoria Park they were supported by Clinic who had recently released their debut album. I wasn't quite sure what to make of them that day, there was something rather comical about the way lead singer Ade Blackburn kept playing his melodica (one of those hand-held keyboards that you blow into). It was a bit like watching a band fronted by an angry 8 year old. The follow up album Walking With Thee showed the band had a haunting, quieter side to their 60's/70's influenced psychedelic indie rock. There have been a further two albums since then which have passed me by (and judging by some reviews I haven't missed much) but I have been listening to their latest for the last few days and there's lots to enjoy.
Clinic aren't a band who appear to want to break the mould. Many tracks on this album have a familiar sound to debut Internal Wrangler. The melodica is back on Tomorrow and the minor chords on High Coin, but there is a renewed vigour to proceedings and occasional glimpses of a new direction or two. There's a stomping beginning with Memories. An organ soften things as Blackburn sings 'Memories are your pieces of gold' and the percussion rattles like a snake behind him. The bouncy pace continues on The Witch (Made To Measure). First single Free Not Free sounds like a slow dance number complete with flute and ooo-wee-ooo backing vocals which are interrupted by a sinister guitar riff just in case you thought they were going all soft on you. It's a trick they pull again on Emotions. Things go a bit bonkers on Shopping Bag; thrashed guitars and the return of the angry 8 year old, this time on what sounds like a toy saxophone. There's no doubting the energy. Corpus Christi creates a sinister atmosphere with its whispered refrain until that saxophone appears again. Mary and Eddie begins like a proper folk song until it's bizarrely interrupted by a massive foghorn. I'm not quite sure how that song might play live but I'm loving the idea of the angry 8 year old striking again with such a powerful instrument.
In the fanfare like Coda at the end we are told that this album is a celebration of the 600 year old anniversary of the Bristol Charter. I've tried to find out what that might be about but no luck so far. What this album does celebrate though is a band reinvigorated. In the same year that Liverpool is European City of Culture one of its bands is showing not only the importance of its musical heritage but the hope for its musical future.
Clinic aren't a band who appear to want to break the mould. Many tracks on this album have a familiar sound to debut Internal Wrangler. The melodica is back on Tomorrow and the minor chords on High Coin, but there is a renewed vigour to proceedings and occasional glimpses of a new direction or two. There's a stomping beginning with Memories. An organ soften things as Blackburn sings 'Memories are your pieces of gold' and the percussion rattles like a snake behind him. The bouncy pace continues on The Witch (Made To Measure). First single Free Not Free sounds like a slow dance number complete with flute and ooo-wee-ooo backing vocals which are interrupted by a sinister guitar riff just in case you thought they were going all soft on you. It's a trick they pull again on Emotions. Things go a bit bonkers on Shopping Bag; thrashed guitars and the return of the angry 8 year old, this time on what sounds like a toy saxophone. There's no doubting the energy. Corpus Christi creates a sinister atmosphere with its whispered refrain until that saxophone appears again. Mary and Eddie begins like a proper folk song until it's bizarrely interrupted by a massive foghorn. I'm not quite sure how that song might play live but I'm loving the idea of the angry 8 year old striking again with such a powerful instrument.
In the fanfare like Coda at the end we are told that this album is a celebration of the 600 year old anniversary of the Bristol Charter. I've tried to find out what that might be about but no luck so far. What this album does celebrate though is a band reinvigorated. In the same year that Liverpool is European City of Culture one of its bands is showing not only the importance of its musical heritage but the hope for its musical future.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
another excellent album from Clinic
15 April 2008
Format:Audio CD
I'm a relatively new fan of Clinic's music, but they're fast becoming one of my favorites. This most recent release is one of their best, with songs like "Emotions", "Coda", and the incredibly catchy "Tomorrow" being standouts. Ade Blackburn's vocals sound like no one else's out there. This UK band definitely deserves wider recognition.
a truly magnificent cd
28 Aug 2008
Format:Audio CD
there is not a bad song on this beauty. it will definitely end up as one of my top 5 for 2008.they've been good since they started and all their cd's are worth owning.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Dub music for the British anarchist art-punk inside us all
9 May 2008
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Four stars only by comparison with past records, for consistency in my opinion's a recommendation for this band. Ade Blackburn with his distinctive vocals, odd yet hauntingly catchy or menacing, continues to suggest more than their mournful, wistful words slur or sigh. He uses his voice as another instrument, and the depth of this band's deceptively austerd music becomes enriched. It sinks into the woodwork, and has long sustain, and appears to reverberate and linger. This must be their fifth studio CD (not counting the three EP's initially that made the band popular-- at least in Britain-- and the import B-sides "Funf"), and their hallmark sound remains taut.
It's a bit less overwhelming than "Visitations" if not as direct as "Winchester Cathedral" in its strangeness. A necessary step forward, however, as the band shows itself ready to alter its characteristically austere approach in the name of reaching perhaps a few more listeners. Without compromising their intelligence, the production here broadens slightly into more radio-friendly styles in a couple of the tracks.
Such a shift for me's reminiscent of Mark E. Smith and The Fall's forays into blending their own art-punk hermeticism with a broader, yet still experimental, dance or rock-oriented sound. This may appeal to fans of Radiohead (for whom Clinic opened). I predict if more of those millions who follow Radiohead found out about Clinic, they'd logically and deservedly be much higher on the charts and in critical acclaim.
Like Thom Yorke and crew, Ade Blackburn as frontman for this masked quartet cloaks himself in sounds, instead of stepping away or in front of them. The tension increases, and the music thickens, simple patterns that sidle and hiss. Why the band has not achieved a more prominent profile perplexes me, but then, I like The Fall!
So, for such ambitious yet willfully cryptic bands, perhaps a loyal cadre of fans who buy each CD legally and who spread the good word are enough to ensure that they continue. The last cut, by the way, hearkens directly to the Mekons; it celebrates the 600th anniversary of the Bristol Charter, and in a shambolic artsy-punk-folk-anarchist spirit suggests Clinic's stretching further back into their native heritage. This may speak, as it did for the Mekons, again promisingly for a long life for another heir to the venerable tradition of smart, yet quirky and unpredictable, art-punk studio wizards who like to keep you puzzled. An enjoyable record, both happy and howling, and recommended for those who like to keep themselves and their fellow listeners off guard a bit.
It's a bit less overwhelming than "Visitations" if not as direct as "Winchester Cathedral" in its strangeness. A necessary step forward, however, as the band shows itself ready to alter its characteristically austere approach in the name of reaching perhaps a few more listeners. Without compromising their intelligence, the production here broadens slightly into more radio-friendly styles in a couple of the tracks.
Such a shift for me's reminiscent of Mark E. Smith and The Fall's forays into blending their own art-punk hermeticism with a broader, yet still experimental, dance or rock-oriented sound. This may appeal to fans of Radiohead (for whom Clinic opened). I predict if more of those millions who follow Radiohead found out about Clinic, they'd logically and deservedly be much higher on the charts and in critical acclaim.
Like Thom Yorke and crew, Ade Blackburn as frontman for this masked quartet cloaks himself in sounds, instead of stepping away or in front of them. The tension increases, and the music thickens, simple patterns that sidle and hiss. Why the band has not achieved a more prominent profile perplexes me, but then, I like The Fall!
So, for such ambitious yet willfully cryptic bands, perhaps a loyal cadre of fans who buy each CD legally and who spread the good word are enough to ensure that they continue. The last cut, by the way, hearkens directly to the Mekons; it celebrates the 600th anniversary of the Bristol Charter, and in a shambolic artsy-punk-folk-anarchist spirit suggests Clinic's stretching further back into their native heritage. This may speak, as it did for the Mekons, again promisingly for a long life for another heir to the venerable tradition of smart, yet quirky and unpredictable, art-punk studio wizards who like to keep you puzzled. An enjoyable record, both happy and howling, and recommended for those who like to keep themselves and their fellow listeners off guard a bit.
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