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Artist: Clinic
Album: If You Could Read Your Mind
Label: Domino
Playtime: 09:15 min
Genre: Alternative
URL: http://www.clinicvoot.org/
Rip date: 2007-02-05
Street date: 2007-02-05
Size: 15 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: VBR kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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Liverpool's art punk four-piece Clinic formed in 1997 out of the ashes of Ade
Blackburn and Hartley's previous band, Pure Morning. The duo added Brian
Campbell and Carl Turney to the fold and released the thrashy debut single
IPC Sub-Editors Dictate Our Youth on the group's own Aladdin's Cave of Golf
label; it reached number nine in John Peel's Festive 50 singles roundup that
year. 1998 saw the release of equally well-received singles like "Cement
Mixer" and "Monkey on My Back," which also showcased Clinic's blend of
chugging, Velvet Underground-style guitars, icy, Suicide-esque keyboards and
drum machines, and Blackburn's acidic, Lennon-esque vocals. In 1999, the band
signed to Domino Records and released "The Second Line," which was
subsequently used in ads for Levi's Jeans in the U.K. Clinic began a flurry
of activity in 2000, releasing their first album, Internal Wrangler, and the
singles "The Return of Evil Bill" and "Distortions." That summer, they
appeared at Scott Walker's Meltdown and All Tomorrow's Parties festivals and
toured with Radiohead. The following year, the group returned to the studio
and Internal Wrangler was released domestically in the U.S. In early 2002,
Clinic resurfaced with their second full-length, Walking With Thee, which
provided a more spacious, atmospheric take on the group's sound. That spring,
the band launched a full-fledged tour of the States. Two years later, Clinic
embarked on a tour of the U.S. before the release of their third album,
Winchester Cathedral, and another tour after its arrival. The band reunited
with Gareth Jones, who mixed Internal Wrangler, for Visitations, a rawer
effort that harked back to Clinic's early days. Visitations was released in
late 2006 in the U.K. and early in 2007 in the U.S.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. If You Could Read Your Mind ( 3:01)
02. Dissolution (The Dream Of Bartholomew) ( 2:41)
03. Saxon Road ( 3:33)
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