Clinic are a Liverpool based post-punk revival band noted for their often fast-paced, eclectic sound. They are known for their prominent use of vintage keyboards/organs, most notably the Philips Philicorda, and peculiar off-scale chord progressions. Oh and they also wear face masks at all times!
'Free Reign' is the band's seventh album and has been produced in the group's hometown of Liverpool, by the band themselves alongside Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never).The album follows their last LP, 2010's 'Bubblegum' and will be put out by Domino on CD, LP and digital download, as well as on a limited edition UFO format, which is a glow in the dark, "cosmic flying disc" which comes along with a download code for the record.
The tracklisting for 'Free Reign' is:
'Misty'
'See Saw'
'Seamless Boogie Woogie BBC2 10pm (rpt)'
'Cosmic Radiation'
'Miss You'
'For the Season'
'King Kong'
'You'
'Sun and the Moon'
The press release stresses that it's the same Clinic sound we love, but not a boring rehashing of the known Clinic vibe: "The junkshop-trawling analogue fetishism of the warm, smoky instrumentation that gives their songs such a vividly placeable sense of mood and atmosphere; the surrealist bent of Blackburn's lyrics - so steeped in their own personal mythology - and the band's over-riding commitment to never straying into the realm of the obvious or complacent are all long-standing elements of Clinic's work that are furthered, perfected even, on Free Reign."
So it's new! But not to new. But not old either.
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