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Single Review: Clinic – I’m Aware (Domino)
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 20 September 2010
Menace, discord and an undercurrent of seething fear while, somehow, incorporating a “barbecue and shit souvenir donkey” element – it could only be Clinic.
In a departure from their usual predilections for frenetically dizzying paranoia, the Liverpool band’s aim with ‘I’m Aware’ was, according to the band themselves, to create “a slight Mediterranean Spanish package holiday feel, and subtly twist it”.
But a soundtrack to Club 18-30 this aint. Three part harmonies create a haunting ethereality; with melodic haziness replacing the band’s usual dark hyperactivity. Amphetamine vocals are pared down into more gentle intonations on a mantra-like chorus “and it’s good / it’s good”, carried by harpsichords, dulcimers and strings. With a twisted Ennio Morricone feel, the precision of the arrangements is breathtaking.
The Clinic brand of ‘uncomfortable’ remains, but the lilting verses are almost soothing in their daydream atmospherics. Almost. EG
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