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: On the surface, The Wanderers is another good-time film about the ’50s and New York street gangs. Beneath all that, it’s really about lost youth and giving way to the next generation. The film ends with rock ‘n’ roll being supplanted by the Greenwich Village folk scene and Bob Dylan. The excellent soundtrack includes many classic doo-wop and rock ‘n’ roll songs. Don’t fuck with the baldies.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M57qoZycnNY
