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OUTSTANDING IN THEIR FIELD Clinic's fourth album finds the masked indie/alt-rockers still producing soundscapes with surgical precision
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Behind these Liverpudlians' surgical masks lurks a knack for scalpel-honed rock that rises to near-hypnotic beauty in such masterworks as 2002's Walking With Thee. On Visitations, Clinic's fourth album, the quartet's blend of minimalism and experimentation explodes into full-bore punk jams like ''Tusk.'' By contrast, on ''Children of Kellogg,'' Ade Blackburn's nasal rasp bubbles under calliope and keyboard flourishes to craft a neo-psychedelic folk reverie. With its lushly forbidding soundscapes and enigmatic lyricism, Visitations bears repeated journeys. A
Posted Jan 24, 2007
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