Walking with Thee [ORIGINAL RECORDING REISSUED]

Clinic

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 6, 2002)
• Original Release Date: March 5, 2002
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Umvd Labels
• ASIN: B00006EXDV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #62,623 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

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 Brown

Product Description

The 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Clinic marches into America, April 2, 2002

By	Keep the Man (eau claire, wi United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walking with Thee (Audio CD)

It was if it came to me in a dream. I awoke one eveing last week, to witness Clinic on MTV2. I was visiting Boston, from Wisconisin, and had never seen such a great video at home. Or wait, I hadn't seen such an excellent video in ten years. The song was "distorions" form clinic's 2000 album, "Internal Wrangler." I bought the c.d. the next day, listened to it all day. The next day I bought "Walking with Thee." I haven't stopped listening to it. I can't help to compare the band to RAdiohead, Modest mouse, and the Velvet Underground. It is all there, The Beatles. This is woking class British rock at its recent best. I think Clinic diagnoses ThomYorke. I guess they are his favorite band and I don't blame him. Move over Thom, now they too are my favorite band. Check out their website cliniconline.org, and look at the pictures, these guys are nuts. It is like the cover of "Hey Jude" mixed with Pink Floyd, only smarter and more distant. I am talking about the one with the four of them in front of the pyramid. So enough about the band and what they seem to be like. Check them out for yourself, a must need for anyone that isn't down with the sickness, or sick of crummy music, and want to take a pill with some serious substance, buy this record, and their other ones. This band is definately going somewhere. Hopefully they will be back in the states soon.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars just what is this?, June 1, 2004

By	"indierockjunkie" (Madison, WI) - See all my reviews

They sound like a mix of Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa's "Freak Out". Clinic has one of the most original sounds going today- by far. There's no middle ground here, you will either love or hate this album. I just happen to fall into the former.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars read three as 3.5 please, October 21, 2002

By	"stary001" (champignon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walking with Thee (Audio CD)

had this been the first album they released, it would get a screaming 5 stars for breaking out of the 'i wanna make new rock' mold

as it stands, they get three and a half because while this is a good album, it is just like internal wrangler, the sounds, the beats, incomprehensible lyrics with the occasional sigh, the LENGTH for crying out loud. . . if i was a music snob, i would give 'em two stars for being stunningly unoriginal here

in short, they created good music ala internal wrangler, and if you enjoyed it and want more, get it. maybe we really want to hear more and more of the same stuff.

chief complaint: new trend in music is short little albums. this must stop. immediately. i will not pay twenty bucks for 40 minutes of entertainment, no way. but this could actually explain the lack of departure from the clinic 'sound' as two 35 minute albums about equals one full length, so maybe i am being a bit harsh. . . nah

sidebar not related to rating here:
i was so excited to see these guys a couple of weeks ago that i was bouncing off the walls, then they played for like 40 minutes. . . including encore. the opening bands had longer sets. what a sham. my clinic fixation has waned.