Following the recent release of Clinic’s critically acclaimed album Bubblegum, the band have confirmed a handful of live dates including an appearance at Liverpool's Bombed Out Church.
Bubblegum, the mind-blowing sixth album from Clinic, is exactly 40 minutes long.
Usually, long-players by this most extraordinary British band clock in at a clipped half-hour.
Clinic – singular, ambitious, revered by fellow musicians – forever sound like no-one else but themselves, because no-one else could even begin to sound like them.
Since the tail end of the ’90s, they’ve beamed in other-worldly psychedelic-pop transmissions from their own parallel dimension (geographically, it’s in Liverpool, but…), each with a vibe and quality consistent with its predecessors, oblivious to passing trends.
Across five darkly phantasmagorical albums, they’ve channeled their ’60s-vintage influences through inspired juxtapositions, compulsive experimentation in mood-elevating FX, a punky-surrealist perspective, and plain brilliant songs.
Every track has broken the rules implicit in everything foregoing. Bubblegum, however, is a different bag of butternut squash. On one listen, it feels instantly warmer, lusher, less uptight. It glows like dusk in a balmy Indian Summer.
Catch this unmissable band on 20th May @ The Bombed Out Church, Liverpool.
www.clinicvoot.org
www.myspace.com/clinicvoot
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