Clinic are currently working on a new album.
Biography
Clinic formed over easter in Liverpool '97. First single 'IPC subeditors dictate our youth' appeared that October, on their own Aladdin's Cave of Golf label. As an opener it set the stall out for how their unique sound would progress; pounding rhythms, heavily distorted organ and intense vocals, a cryptic mix of surf punk with a mutant house beat. The single was top ten in John Peel's festive fifty and ironically in both NME and Melody Maker. In an indie sense, the band had arrived (despite their ambitions lying elsewhere).
After two more Aladdin's releases (both voodoo
based), Clinic signed with Domino
in '99 and set about constructing the extreme dementia and peace that would
become 'Internal Wrangler'. Their first album proper, 'Wrangler' easily
delivered on the promise of the early singles, sounding like nothing else
extant, your planet or mine. A London NME astoria show followed, with the band
in full Pearly King gear playing to an appreciative audience. A true celebration
of the capital.
The second long player 'Walking With Thee' came in
2002. A much spacier take on their sound but still containing the fuzzed
organ freak out of the title track. Surreally and deservedly, the album was
nominated for a grammy, through a year of growing intrigue in America.
This included the genuinely disgraceful and captivating Beatlesesque appearance
on the David
Letterman show. Not for the faint hearted.
After a spate of living dangerously in '03/'04
'Winchester Cathedral' began to take shape. A dense mass of psyche and senseless
music hall, it was Clinic doing what they do best - ignoring the tenets and
trends of the music industry. It was a British triumph, borne out of
several joyous rural events and circus happenings.
October 2006 saw the release of a new record, 'Visitations'. 'Funf', a compilation of b-sides from the last ten years was released in June 2007.
The band's latest album 'Do It!' was released in April 2008.
A new record is expected in September 2009.
 
   
[Click on album sleeves to purchase from iTunes]
Visit www.clinicvoot.org for further information, streaming live versions of songs on the new album, promotional and live videos, etc. AND you can buy music and merchanidise at the
Online Shop - which now has four new T-shirt designs available.
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