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April 22, 2004

Clinic Enter "Cathedral"

Art rockers' third record due in August
April 23, 2003

Clinic Nursing New Album

Masked British rockers ditch electronica on third album
January 8, 2003

Grammy's Golden Age of Parity

Hundreds of artists just happy to be nominated
July 17, 2002

Clinic, Apples to Tour This Fall

Both indie groups support new releases on the road

Recordings and Reviews

Internal Wrangler

Of the few intelligible lyrics on this peculiar Liverpudlian quartet's debut album, one phrase sticks out: "Free of distortions." That's a joke; distortions are Clinic's principal business. By twisting the features of various stylistic forefathers - the Velvet Underground, early Pink Floyd, Can, Wir...

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Donning surgical masks in concert, Clinic takes a back-to-the-lab approach to postpunk. On its first album, Internal Wrangler, the Liverpudlian group mixes and mismatches the styles of krautrock, the Fall, U.S.-servicemen-turned-bizarro-beat-group the Monks, reggae dub, and Pere Ubu into tracks made out of ambling rhythms that are both shambling and hypnotic. The song "Internal Wrangler" is Roky...

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