From The Desk Of Clinic’s Ade Blackburn: “Tabernacle”

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: Surrealism has always had an influence on Clinic’s music. I saw Tabernacle, a surrealist exhibition, in Paris when we were on tour. It’s a piece of found art by Yves Tanguy. I’m not even sure it classes as surrealism. Ugly and beautiful all at the same time. What the fuck is it? I still don’t know but need to keep looking at it.

Video after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu2hp1ITdp0