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Pitchfork 7.1/10 The enigmatic Liverpool band returns with an album heavy on Suicide-like groove and open-ended jams. The choice of Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never as mixer adds an additional element of experimentation.
The Skinny 3/5 Now on their seventh LP, Clinic’s career has spanned a period in which rock that combines innovation and poppiness has become increasingly thin on the ground; but the Liverpudlians have always been hovering on the margins, quietly producing record after record of eccentric, leftfield, yet decidedly un-ostentatious indie. The key lies in their mining of influences that tend to be underappreciated by most pop-inspired guitar acts: Can, Neu! and the Monks, for example, are all shoehorned into Free Reign’s deliberately sketchy collision of catchiness and obliquity.
Under The Radar 6.5/10 Clinic are as known-quantity as a band can get. They are one of those antidote bands designed for fans who get mad when a band evolves too much. If they are changing, it’s at a scarcely detectable speed, like an exciting glacier (apologies to any geolog
Clash 8/10 ClashMusic: Read an album review of 'Free Reign' by Liverpool band Clinic on Domino, released on 12th November 2012.
Slant 4/5 With its psychedelic textures and evocations of space travel and eternal love, Free Reign could be considered Clinic’s hippie album.
The Guardian 3/5 The seventh album from Liverpudlian psych-rockers Clinic treads a line between musical stricture and freedom, writes <strong>Tom Hughes</strong>
