Internal Wrangler - Clinic

...it is quite catchy. Internal Wrangler: The title track. Again the usual guitars and drums combo only they've opted for a more electronic sounding theme throughout. This one sounds a lot like something The Velvet Underground might sing. Quite eerie really. DJ Shangri La: Sounds very much like a funeral march at the beginning. A church organ with a bell being tolled. Although this doesn't have any lyrics and it only lasts 52 seconds it's still my favourite ...
...and one of the more oddly sung songs. This is more drum based, but only very softly played. The Second Line slyly chants in the chorus when you're not expecting it to and ends pretty abruptly. C Q: One of the quickly paced songs. Louder drums and guitars with more of a shouty voice but still quite softly. It's more spoken than any of the other songs but it only lasts about 1 minute. T K: Starts off at a medium paced and has a lot of mouth organ in ...

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you just have to love this band. Any band who can appear on stage dressed in full surgeon gear & masks & then create such a bizzare mish-mash of 60s Garage meets Ray Manzarek having a breakdown meets the Velvet Underground is okay by me. I first discovered Clinic on the Evening Session (like most bands) or maybe it was Peel, with their wonderful early single "Monkey on my Back" (see album 1 Clinic - "Clinic"), a deranged Hammond stomp resembling ...
...thing). It prompted me to buy the first album, a pure delight of noise & insanity. "Internal Wrangler" is much more polished, a mellower affair by whole, with some obvious exceptions still. A lot of it reminds me of the 3rd Velvet Underground LP (the one with "Candy Says", "Pale Blue Eyes", "Stephanie Says" etc., on it); in fact, there are some lyrics lifted from "Pale Blue Eyes" on one of the tracks - a trait Clinic are inclined to do. All in ...

Jonny_Narcissus 20.02.2001 · Read full review
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This is Clinic's first album proper after last year's hugely exciting EP collection. Where that compilation presented a hotch-potch of baffling instrumentals and buzzing low budget, home recorded psychedelic garage epics, "Internal Wrangler" consists of... erm, more of the same, actually. The sound of the album is very rough and ready and there have been numerous negative opinions expressed about it's overwhelming similarity to the Velvet Underground's ...
...their blueprint and added helium-pitched, barking vocals (a little like Brian Molko out of Placebo being tortured with a mangler), Mary Chain thrash guitars and even Krautrock rhythms. It's an intriguing mix which can sometimes grate, but is often a revelation. The calm after the storm is revealed in the shape of tracks like "Distortions", possibly the only maudlin love song ever to feature lyrics about imagining your partner in a coffin, and "Goodnight ...

dbryant_23 12.07.2000 · Read full review
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Clinic chose to call themselves thus because they believe the current music scene is dead (true), and that they are the ones who can breathe new life into its still-twitching corpse. On the strength of this album, the miracle isn't likely to happen for quite some time but it's a promising beginning. The excellent, rollicking lead single The Return Of Evil Bill is one of the highpoints here but there's not much else that can match it, save the gentle ...
...and use the same ingredients: harmonica, ultra-distorted guitar, and muffled, high-pitched vocals. The atonal noise on dislpay is the only thing that recalls the oft-cited influence of The velvet Underground. It's also a pity that the band have sold out by soundtracking the latest Levi jeans advert. It may earn the fans but it won't earn them respect. ...

MonkeyboyUK 24.09.2000 · Read full review
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