CLINIC

Manchester Psych Fest Presents...

Clinic

The North-West experimental, psych, post-punk weirdness of Clinic will play a rescheduled show this spring after their late cancellation of Manchester Psych Fest II. Signed to Domino Records, Clinic have racked up Grammy nominations, Letterman performances as well as tour slots with Radiohead, The Flaming Lips and Arcade Fire.

In the fifteen years since the release of the irrepressible band's debut EP, Ade Blackburn and co. have essentially delivered an exquisite master-class in fearless singularity - consistently and steadfastly pushing the frontiers of their perfectly-defined, next-dimension pop trips on their own trajectory over the course of six, and now seven, confoundingly magnificent albums.

Their craft, one that has always bloomed in isolation and seemed impervious to the fickle tide of trend or fad, remains both resolutely eclectic and acutely focused. The junkshop-trawling analogue fetishism of the warm, smokey instrumentation that gives their songs such a vividly placeable sense of mood and atmosphere; the surrealist bent of Blackburn's lyrics - so steeped in their own personal mythology - and the band's over-riding commitment to never straying into the realm of the obvious or complacent are all long-standing elements of Clinic's work.

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