As 2012 has come to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors.
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: Liverpool has never been recognized much for its arts scene or poets. Inevitably, they get overshadowed by the Beatles. Adrian Henri and fellow Mersey poets Roger Mcgough and Brian Patten existed alongside the Beatles but decidedly on the fringe. Henri’s poetry is very simple and conversational. It’s beautiful and sad, with a universal appeal. He based poems around his own city, rather than thinking the grass is greener—or cooler—elsewhere. I always admired that. The best place to start is 1967’s The Mersey Sound, a Penguin publishing collection of all three poets.
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