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: Pebbles Vol. 3: The Acid Gallery was the first record I bought that to me defied description. It was my introduction to acid punk as a teenager. It’s rooted in R&B, with a large amount of mind-bending elements and excessive use of sound effects. “Flight Reaction” by the Calico Wall is a classic example. Absolutely demented and surprisingly danceable. Quite different from today’s accepted version of what “psychedelic” music is. Other notable acid-punk collections are: Beyond The Calico Wall, Psychedelic Disaster Whirl and Psychedelic Experience Vol. 1-4.
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3 replies on “From The Desk Of Clinic’s Ade Blackburn: Acid Punk”
Hey Ade,
LOOONG time fan, first time caller. You might remember me. I was the bloke in the elevator in 2002 in Vancouver BC before the show at Richards and Richards who recognized you (and the rest of Clinic) just by your accents. I asked where your masks were. Forgive me. I was 19.
Anyway, next time you’re in Portland (which will be soon, I hope) stop by Exiled Records. It’s RIGHT up your alley. Tons and tons of weirdo/out/psych compilations and records and tapes. Rarely does a week go by that I don’t make some kind of custom there. It really puts other record stores to shame. including Amoeba.
Thanks for the years of music
Ross
You forgot the -dash.
I forgot who worked for Magnet.
Long live Chunklet and Vice.