Clinic "Do It!" (OUT NOW!)

[busyboy]

Clinic Do It on New Album, Tour
Big Things Poppin'

Back with "an energized and increasingly psych-rock influenced sound" (sez a press release), the spookily surgical garage-rocking Liverpudlians of Clinic will issue Do It, their fifth LP, April 8 on Domino Records.

The disc will be preceded by the single for "Free Not Free" (wait, which is it?), which, along with B-side "Thor", will be available for free download-- complete with artwork-- through the band's website starting February 1. And here you thought the only cool schwag at the free Clinic were those glow-in-the-dark jimmy hats!

Clinic will begin accepting appointments for their bizarre brand of house calls beginning on Do It's release date, with a handful of UK dates preceding a hop over the pond for a North American trek in May. They'll preview their well-honed surgical skills over the radio a couple times before that, with a live session January 24 on Marc Riley's show on BBC Radio 6, and invite winners of a contest on their website to join them in Liverpool February 1 for a similar gig on Radio Merseyside.

Want the cold, sterile, cut-and-dry facts? They're all here, behind this thing.

Do It:

01 Memories
02 Tomorrow
03 The Witch (Made to Measure)
04 Free Not Free
05 Shopping Bag
06 Corpus Christi
07 Emotions
08 High Coin
09 Mary & Eddie
10 Winged Wheel
11 Coda

Dates:

04-08 Bristol, England - Thekla
04-09 London, England - 229 Club
04-10 Brighton, England - Audio
04-11 Leeds, England - Brudenell Social Club
04-12 Manchester, England - University
05-08 Brooklyn, NY - Music Hall of Williamsburg
05-09 Boston, MA - Paradise
05-10 Montreal, Quebec - La Sala Rosa
05-11 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's
05-12 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle
05-13 Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
05-16 Vancouver, British Columbia - Richards
05-17 Seattle, WA - Neumos
05-18 Portland, OR - Doug Fir
05-19 San Francisco, CA - Independent
05-20 Los Angeles, CA - Troubador
05-23 Austin, TX - Emo's
05-24 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
05-25 Atlanta, GA - The Earl
05-26 Chapel Hill, NC - Cat's Cradle
05-27 Lancaster, PA - Chameleon Club
05-28 Washington, DC - Black Cat
05-29 Baltimore, MD - Sonar
05-30 Philadelphia - Johnny Brenda's
05-31 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

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I have to finally see them live

[busyboy]

"Free Not Free" and its b-side "Thor" are up for download from their website:

www.clinicvoot.org/

[busyboy]

From billboard.com:

British art rockers Clinic will return April 8 with their fifth album, "Do It!." The Domino set was recorded in the group's Liverpool studio and shifts to a more melodic approach than was found on 2006's "Visitations."

Clinic frontman Ade Blackburn describes the album as a "contrast between mellow and weirdness. We heavily chopped up the song structures so they're not standard verse/chorus," Blackburn tells Billboard.com. "It makes the record hard to pin down and unpredictable."

"Do It!" was written and recorded "rather quickly," and teaming up with Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings Of Leon) for mixing duties "brought out a pop side" of the record. "The end result is quite a surreal mixture," Blackburn says. This stylistic melting pot most noticeably shows up on "Corpus Christi," a song Blackburn describes as a "jug band take on Can."

Clinic will tour the U.S. in May, and promises to expand into show into two sets. The first will be "Do It!" in its entirety, followed by a second set of older tunes. "It's our Bruce Springsteen phase," Blackburn says.

[busyboy]

Leaked!

[busyboy]

Videos for:

"Free Not Free"

youtube.com/watch?v=I-FDRjj6_Nk

"The Witch"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uHbEN3SFjo

[busyboy]

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They totally stole that from my 8th grade doodle pads.

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The Witch video totally is based on Warhol's EXPLODING PLASTIC INEVITABLE projections.

Clinic remain one of the most synaesthetically appealing bands ever to grace music. I'm not really sure who I would even be today if I had not discovered them back in 2001 as an eager young lass.

[jazklash]

Are you saying Clinic were your Nirvana or something?

(For the record: "my Nirvana" were, believe it or not, the Happy Mondays! Yes, at 10 years old!)

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Kind of. They were one of my first "indie" bands, I guess. Before that it was all glamorous female-led bands. I distinctly remember buying the "Walking With Thee" album on a whim alongside The Donnas "Spend The Night" and t.A.T.u.'s "200 km/h in the Wrong Lane". Oh, and QOTSA's "Songs for the Deaf". I guess I was going through a rough time with my identity or something. I remember the WWT video on MTV2 all day long, alongside Zero 7's "Destiny", which I was attracted to because of its similarity to the Zoloft advertisements.

[jazklash]

That "Destiny" video was the second one, where Sia and Sophie came across as "human drawings" coming to life. On MTV Europe, this version was the most broadcast one!

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HAHAHA. Wow.
Ick. I felt gross watching that.
It's like one of those beach vignette videos you buy to help you sleep mixed with all the biological suggestions of the "Teardrop" video from M.A.
The whole affair is thoroughly disgusting & I doubt I ever would have been attracted to the song/band if I had seen that video first.
GOOD THING THEY REMADE IT.

[jazklash]

I interviewed Sam and Henry back in 2001 backstage at a festival here. It was their first concert in Portugal, and I interviewed them for this magazine I was contributing for back then. At a certain point, the conversation focused on their videos (like this one from "I Have Seen"). Both had been made by this multimedia/design company, and both had been, well, ordered by their label at the time (which, by now, for all accounts, is frozen). They were both extremely dissatisfied with the videos, to say the least, and said it on record.
I also had a quick chat with Sia, Sophie and Mozez. Sia is your typical British-girl-on-holidays-abroad. I think you know what that means.

[busyboy]

Out today in the US! It doesn't show up in the Top 40 for UK midweeks, but then again, none of their albums peaked that high there.

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It has a metacritic page & got a 7.7 from Pitchfork!
www.metacritic.com/music/artists/clinic/doit

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oh darling, could you make a page for our dear Nick Cave?
www.metacritic.com/music/artists/cavenick/diglazarusdig

I'm scared of getting caught here at work...should be doing design research

[busyboy]

Nu page done... ;)

[jazklash]

Apr 8, 2008 14:16:09 GMT -5 oscillations. said:

oh darling, could you make a page for our dear Nick Cave?

>:(

Get your divorce papers ready, little girl!

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Oh please, cheri, have you never heard of serial monogamy? ;)



Let's have one of those silly hardboiled romances from the pulp noir era.
Recently, ideals of that sort have quickly achieved nearly mythological status inside the ghettos of my always curious, restless mind.

[jazklash]

Apr 8, 2008 23:33:00 GMT -5 oscillations. said:

Let's have one of those silly hardboiled romances from the pulp noir era.

OUR WHOLE RELATIONSHIP HAS BEEN ONE HARD-BOILED ROMANCE FROM THE PULP NOIR ERA! >:(

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Leave me alone!

*pulls cover over head & faces the wall*