Clinic - Walking With Thee
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Artist: ClinicEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued
CD Release Date: 2002-08-06
Music Label: Umvd Labels
Soundtracks:
- Harmony
- The Equaliser
- Welcome
- Walking With Thee
- Pet Eunuch
- Mr. Moonlight
- Come Into Our Room
- The Vulture
- The Bridge
- Sunlight Bathes Our Room
- For The Wars
Free Music Notes for Walking With Thee
Free Music Review: Original Sounding and Quite Beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
On the cover of this album there is an arty little painting of a keyboard and if you look at the back of it in a certain way you might get the impression of a grand piano. So it's no secret that the keyboard is going to be featured prominently, and it is, it is. But there is so much other great stuff on this album that after a while you can't help but wonder whether the whole keyboard motif was meant to be ironic. There are a lot of different instruments on this album and all of them fit in beautifully.
The guitar work--rhythm and melody and mostly plucked--is particularly lovely. There are no solos or thrash strumming; instead it weaves in and out very subtly in the background, always remaining fresh and sometimes driving the piece. The same can be said of the rhythm section. Again, it doesn't call a whole lot of attention to itself, but if you care to pay attention to it, you'll note it is carefully done and more than a little complex. Of course, it is the keyboard which is dominant here, and it is superb, covering at least a few different styles, from the harsh organ evident in the sixties rock piece, "Walking With Thee;" to the rhythm it provides in, "Harmony," and, "Come Into Our Room;" and to the gentle melodies and intensity it provides in, well, just about everything else. Perhaps what is most surprising about this album is the use of wind instruments. Mostly it is the harp hauntingly floating around, but there is flute also, and is that a clarinet on, "Sunlight Bathes Our Home?" Whatever, these are what make the album unique and what truly define this band's sound; a sound, it must be added, which is utterly distinct. There is really nobody else that sounds like this.
The songs are wonderfully crafted, tiny little works of art, with a beginning, a middle, a growing intensity, and an emotionally satisfying ending. "Vulture," is a fine example of this, with the carefully controlled harp at the beginning veering dangerously out of control as the song progresses--over the intensifying rhythm section--before crashing to an abrupt, stunning ending. But this is typical: all of the songs feature varying degrees of beauty, intensity and drama, and, except for, "Pet Eunuch"--a jarring, out-of-place, unoriginal punk piece--everything here is worth repeated listens. Indeed, it is two years now since it has been released, and it is still regularly demanding of a spot on the CD changer.
It must be admitted that the singer is a little bit hard to understand. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, though. What's important is that his is a vocal that is able to convey a sense of barely restrained emotion, which is exactly what this kind of music calls for.
Walking With Thee Poster
Fans of the Clinic's uniquely eerie take on '60s and '70s U.S. garage rock will be pleased by their second long player, Walking with Thee, which contains the same amount of malevolence lurking within. It also sounds quite marvelous. On their debut album, Internal Wrangler, this British four-piece displayed a ferocious, focused melding of garage, art rock, Krautrock, surf, and any other left-field genre you'd care to mention. Clinic will no doubt tire of the continual Velvet Underground comparisons, but while they have mined rock's cooler record collections, they've nevertheless created disorientating and utterly compelling music. From the bass-driven chug of "Welcome" (a heady collision of the Ronettes and '60s sci-fi soundtrack music) to the sweat-drenched derangement of "Pet Eunoch," Clinic are clearly in thrall to mid-'70s New York, but among the detached, icy vocals and Suicide-like minimalism, the album contains electronic undercurrents and off-kilter pop moments that are the band's own. The pervasive mood is of unease and disquiet; on the unsettling closer, "For the Wars," Ade Blackburn sings, "Now it's safe and warm." And, of course, it's anything but. --Suzannah BrownThe second album by Liverpool's favorite sons. Co-produced with Ben Hillier (Blur, Elbow). Clinic have found fanatical new followers all over the world in the last year since the release of their debut album, Internal Wrangler, and Radiohead's invitation to accompany them on the Kid A tour. The band also played to packed houses in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York on their initial headlining tour of the States in September and October 2001. Domino.
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