A lot has changed since Clinic first shell-shocked the scene in the late ’90s with a waxen trio of blitzkrieg EPs, and the many rave reviews and rarefied Radiohead comparisons that followed its earliest albums, 2000’s Internal Wrangler and 2002’s Walking With Thee. Born during those final twilight hours of the music industry’s money-minting heyday, Clinic has defiantly survived the many upheavals and unthinking revolutions that surround the working band in the internet age. Free Reign (Domino) is Clinic’s seventh album, as well as the most focused and singular of the band’s career to date. Frontman Ade Blackburn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Clinic feature.
Blackburn: One of the books that really got me into reading, A Confederacy Of Dunces is about as easy as it gets. The main character, Ignatius J.Reilly, rails against the hypocrisy and sinful nature of modern life, to wonderful comic effect. Kind of like a Southern Mark E.Smith, but with even more bile. Sadly, the author, John Kennedy Toole, couldn’t find any publishers for the book and later committed suicide. His mother finally found a publisher after his death. It still makes me wonder,what other great books he would have been capable of writing.
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