Clinic - 'If You Could Read Your Mind'
You just can't have too many bands like Clinic. Band who 'refuse' to play the music biz 'game' by 'the rules' and deliberately obscure their own faces in every press shot and at live appearances...while still having press shots done and appearing live (and often in costume). It's like having your cake, eating your cake, and then going back to ask the cake-shop lady where all the blimming cake is...
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And this is just one of the many marvellous things about this record. Another is the fact that one of the band members seems to have decided to bark like a dog - a dog with perfect rhythm, obv - while clanking a selection of mechanical things with a spanner.
And then there's the poisonous wasp guitar buzzing its venomous way across the song, a wasp which seems to have unsettled Clinic's singer Ade to such a huge degree that he can only manage a terrified yelpsqueak through clenched teeth, rather than the deep soulful Barry White croon he probably has when singing in the bath.
Now, I'm not suggesting you put down your Fall Chemical Fly records forever and devote the rest of your life to nutbag drone rock like this. But surely there's room in your life for a band who will definitely never ever appear on Celebrity Big Brother, unless they do a special masked version, including some of Slipknot, Spider-Man, Mr Incredible and Anne Robinson.
What? Herface is REAL? Gah!
Released: February 5th
(Fraser McAlpine)
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