To date, CLINIC have been able to do precious little wrong for this critic, and with “Come Into Our Room” they’re busily upping the ante yet again.
The band’s recent “Walking With Thee” album moved THE INDEPENDENT to dub them “Liverpool’s most interesting band in years” and while that’s a tough tag to live up to given the city’s illustrious past, Ade Blackburn’s boys do possess a rare, individualistic streak and an inbuilt gyroscope that keeps them on a singular sonic path.
“Come Into Our Room” is no exception. A dub heartbeat PIL-style disco rhythm launches a creepy keyboard-led pulse, with a lonely Blackburn intoning in a voice roughly halfway between LUKE HAINES and a chorister coming down after some especially rich disco biscuits. It’s hard to describe the eerie feeling that grips you when he sings a line apparently as innocuous and sincere as: “It’s wonderful with you.”
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“Walking With Thee” revelled in a sinister and dislocated world and showed just how lazy those myriad VELVETS comparisons were. Now, “Come Into Our Room” makes it plain that these Liverpudlians can perform strange and exotic operations at will – with or without clarinets
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