Advantages: Some brief interludes of musical originality Disadvantages: Lyrics banal and uninteresting
‘Visitations’ - Clinic’s fourth full-length album release - is unfortunately going to do nothing to help their already-marginalized status in the ever-widening field of post-punk indie rock. At the release of their debut effort in 2000, they were critically acclaimed as an experimental yet accessible take on their punk influences. Likened to such greats as Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground, it seemed they could do no wrong – they were a favourite ... ...a UK tour. But every subsequent release since then has focussed more and more on the worst aspects of their debut, turning out endless versions of the same guitar-driven thrashing monotony, with this newest album being no exception.
The new album’s first single ‘Tusk’ is one of the highlights of a terminally dull musical experience. It has some interesting if unoriginal guitar lines but fails to excite any real curiosity to listen further. ‘Gideon’ ...
cazzie_alice 18.05.2007
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