Clinic - Clinic

Clinic burst on to an unsuspecting music scene in mid 1998 with a baffling array of home-recorded psychedelic discs cut on their own "Alladin's Cave of Golf" record label, appearing in all publicity shots with surgical gowns and face masks on, staring out of the publicity shots at the curious listener. This first album, released last year, is a compilation of all the self-released material on one CD. "Clinic" contains one bona-fide indie classic ...
...a deceptively calm introduction. Elsewhere, Clinic provide us with a couple of dubious B-side instrumentals, an excellent two-pence budget steal off the Pixies with "DP", and the wonderous "IPC Sub-Editors Dictate Our Youth", which manages to combine stomping rhythms with squawking psychedlia. True, the origins of their sound owe a great debt to the Velvet Underground, but the vocals are urgent and sound as if they are being delivered through gritted ...

dbryant_23 12.07.2000 · Read full review
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...you catch the new band Clinic at Glastonbury or see them with radiohead this week? Clinic is my favourite new band. They play a wildly psychotic mix of keyboards and guitar vaguely sounding like some kind of sixties pyschobilly or crazed movie soundtrack. And you can dance to it! Their new single is called Evil Bill, which is a full on teenage assault to your ears...a little of my generation is cheekily hidden on this one which is the best one on ...

suzanna 07.07.2000 · Read full review
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