Internal Wrangler

Artist: Clinic
Label: Domino Records UK
Category: Music

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Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5034202007821
ASIN: B00004RJL5

Release Date: 2000-05-04

Internal Wrangler

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Tracks:

Voodoo Wop
Return of Evil Bill
Internal Wrangler
DJ Shangri-La
Second Line
C.Q.
T.K.
Earth Angel
Distortions
Hippy Death Suite
2nd Foot Stomp
2/4
Goodnight Georgie

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From a seedy underworld of gothic malevolence and bad voodoo comes this, Clinic's long-awaited debut album. On Internal Wrangler, these four serious, young, conceptual post-punkers pull on their emergency-room overalls and go about dissecting the dark underbelly of rock history with a scalpel, sewing it back together in unique malformations. There are knowing references to the smack-addled chug of Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat, the acerbic eclecticism of the Beatles' White Album and even a dark, serious nod to Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" on the creaking workout "TK." But really, Wrangler sounds like nothing else past or present--a 30-minute death rattle of caustic, shrieking garage-punk, interspersed with murky funereal interludes and malevolent post-folk nursery rhymes (there's even a song called "Hippy Death Suite"). Surely, this is a band to kill for. --Louis Pattison

Album Details

Indie/alternative. Featuring 13 Songs, Much Influenced by American Psych Terrorists 13th Floor Elevators as English Punk Pioneers the Troggs. Talked About in Every British Magazine.

Customer Reviews:

The best indie album of 2000.......2001-08-15

I first came across Clinic when they supported Radiohead on their three gigs in the summer of 2000. Clinic didn't really manage to "steal the show", but they incontrovertibly appeared like a band that's worth checking out. The utilization of so many instruments & sounds, the rawness of their songs, & mostly their brevity- Something pretty exceptional within the neoalternative British scene (I for instance cannot bear Bent or Elbow- After the first thirty seconds of a song by any of them I always feel like falling asleep, & it's not merely a simile). So, based on the good impression that gig gave me & on "The Second Line", the most wellknown single off of this album (Proportionately of course) I decided to purchase Internal Wrangler. On my first listen I was bewildered by the deliberately archaic artwork (The entire thing looks more like a record than a compactdisc), Ade Blackburn's peculiar vocals & the harkingback instrumentations, which customarily on this album consist on light guitarriffs & what appears to be synths & drummachines from the late 1970's (Could they be jeering the electronic influences virtually every artist/act includes in their songs nowadays? I don't think so, but it sure works well here). The album sorta creeped me out & nearly made me not wanna touch it ever again. However on repeated listens the album opens up, kinda like vintage wine- The tracks, no matter how eccentric & purposefully dated they appear, are all in point of fact compelling, enchanting & on occasion ("Earth Angel", "Distortions", "Goodnight Georgie") inebriating. The eeriness & intermittent abrasiveness of Clinic's hallmark sound manages to spice up what otherwise would've been considered as merely another indie album influenced by 1960's prepunk bands & early twentieth century New Orleans jazz (As the album's artwork also alludes). & let's not forget that splendid brevity again- This album takes merely 31:06 minutes to listen to, so you have nothing to fear about ending up with Grandaddyesque selfindulgence (I seriously can't believe that Clinic will ever record a fifteenminute song with the same line over & over again, merely arranged differently each time it comes). "The Return Of Evil Bill", "Internal Wrangler", "The Second Line", "C.Q.", "T.K.", "Hippy Death Suite" & "2/4" could all be superior demonstrative singles in the British indie scene, kinda like telling the critics "Hey, we can do it much better". & Clinic CAN do it much better so you'll better give them a chance. Who knows, they just might be the next representatives of the genre.

Finally to be released in the US.......2001-08-09

I picked up all of Clinic's releases on a trip to the UK in 2000, after hearing them on the John Peel show. Their first full album, "Internal Wrangler", is one of the freshest rock releases of the last couple of years. While their influences aren't anything out of the ordinary (you will hear bits of the Velvets, 13th Floor Elevators and Suicide among others), what they do with them certainly is. This is a very dense, beautiful and hypnotic record. Clinic has a fine ear for sound and melody, and makes every second of this record count. I'm sure many listeners will not make it past the off kilter vocal style, which at times has a Peter Lorre quality to it, and that's really a shame, because groups like this don't show up very often. Listen to this one on headphones if you really want to lose yourself.

More Please! Addictive like an itch........2001-07-17

I listened to it once, interesting. I listened again, damn good. I listened yet again, amazing. This album is addictive like an itch. Punk+RadioHead+Rockabilly? I dunno but I like it a lot. The point is these lads seem to have music that emanates from another universe--yea, I know, vauge, but so is the sound. It has certain pop qualities like Beatles-esqe catchiness, but then the songs have an insane chugging quality. I swear a few of these tracks sound like freight trains speeding through a foggy night; you see a light you hear a roar and then it's gone.

Playful Psychedelica.......2001-05-09

Internal Wrangler by Liverpool's Clinic sounds so much like a 60's band that, except for vocal ID, they could pass for Iron Butterfly or any of the other "where are they now?" psychedelic bands. Normally, this type of thing would drive me crazy, but there's such playfulness here, and enough of a modern overlay to these fourteen fragments, that I'm willing to believe these aren't just four boys jerking off to nostalgia. It might actually be a distillation of who they are. Artsy, for certain. With something to say - who knows? But from the nasty rockabilly of "The Return of Evil Bill" to the dreamer's lullaby "Goodnight Georgie", each song offers an fascinating aural fillip or two that keeps me coming back. Content, I hope, will follow.

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