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: If you ever visit England, forget about going to London. The Lake District is far superior and even has better bands. The combination of tranquility and beauty is quite breathtaking. The Lakes is also still quite noncommercial or at least free of chains. I’d recommend staying in Hawkshead, a quaint small village by Coniston Lake. William Wordsworth went to school there. Seven pubs in one square mile. Pretty faultless if you ask me.
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