Clinic vender tilbage efter 7 år og annoncerer nyt album med singlen ‘Rubber Bullets’
Efter en pause på syv år vender post-punk-pop-eksperimentalisterne i Clinic tilbage med deres ottende album Wheeltappers and Shunters. Det kommende album udkommer den 10. maj på Domino Recordings / Playground Music i Norden.
Den usædvanlige albumtitel er taget fra det for længst glemte, 1970'er TV-shows "The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club" og om albummet kan Ade Blackburn fra Clinic afsløre:
"It's been a pisstake thing between us for quite a few years. Whenever we'd talk about a song sounding too 'caberet' or too nice, we'd say, 'That's a bit Wheeltappers and Shunters'".
Albummet er hverken en hyldest eller en nedgørelse af kulturen i denne periode, hvor Blackburn og Hartley fra Clinic begge er vokset op. Blackburn forklarer:
"It's a satirical take on British culture - high and low. It fascinates me that people look back on the 1970s as the glory days. It's emerged that there was a darker, mor perverse side to that time. When you look back on it now it was quite clearly there in mainstream culture."
Wheeltappers and Shunters er indspillet sidste år i Hartleys studie i London og er mixet af Dilip Harris (King Krule, Sons of Kemet, Mount Kimbie).
Første smagsprøve fra albummet udkommer i form af sangen 'Rubber Bullets', der emmer af 50'er rock'n'nroll.
Lyt til 'Rubber Bullets' og se den tilhørende musikvideo, instrueret af Joseph May, HER.
"It's been a pisstake thing between us for quite a few years. Whenever we'd talk about a song sounding too 'caberet' or too nice, we'd say, 'That's a bit Wheeltappers and Shunters'".
Albummet er hverken en hyldest eller en nedgørelse af kulturen i denne periode, hvor Blackburn og Hartley fra Clinic begge er vokset op. Blackburn forklarer:
"It's a satirical take on British culture - high and low. It fascinates me that people look back on the 1970s as the glory days. It's emerged that there was a darker, mor perverse side to that time. When you look back on it now it was quite clearly there in mainstream culture."
Wheeltappers and Shunters er indspillet sidste år i Hartleys studie i London og er mixet af Dilip Harris (King Krule, Sons of Kemet, Mount Kimbie).
Første smagsprøve fra albummet udkommer i form af sangen 'Rubber Bullets', der emmer af 50'er rock'n'nroll.
Lyt til 'Rubber Bullets' og se den tilhørende musikvideo, instrueret af Joseph May, HER.
Trackliste:
1. Laughing Cavalier
2. Complex
3. Rubber Bullets
4. Tiger
5. Ferryboat of the Mind
6. Mirage
7. D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E
8. Flying Fish
9. Be Yourself/Year of the Sadist
10. Congratulations
11. Rejoice!
12. New Equations at the Copacabana
1. Laughing Cavalier
2. Complex
3. Rubber Bullets
4. Tiger
5. Ferryboat of the Mind
6. Mirage
7. D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E
8. Flying Fish
9. Be Yourself/Year of the Sadist
10. Congratulations
11. Rejoice!
12. New Equations at the Copacabana