Clinic - Classic or Dud?

I saw them a few times in the mid 2000s and thought they were pretty great. They can be samey but with their short punchy numbers I don't mind. The longer meandering stuff leaves me cold sometimes.

I talked with the singer's girlfriend at a pub in Liverpool once. Apparently he is a huge Springsteen fan.

Last couple are full of punchier Clinic albums. I tell ya, folks are sleeping on the new one. It's good.

Clinic numbers, I should say.

I type like five words too fast these days.

On my first listen in a week. I still think it's great. Shame the world's kind of moved on from Clinic. I like them. I hope Ade keeps at it. The menacing kitsch is doing it for me. That "I Can't Stand the Rain" cover is a Clinic catalog highlight.

Clinic is a band that never got worse but also never got better. The new album is great, though ranking anything beyond their first two or three is just a matter of degrees.

I think that sums it up well. I do hear some promising new forks in the road on the last two at least.

I like this new one a lot! I get a Kraftwerk vibe from "Refractions".