Wheeltappers and Shunters
A playful callback to the 1970s variety television show of the same name, Wheeltappers and Shunters is a title befitting of what Clinic was looking to achieve with their eighth studio album: "a satirical take on British culture - both high and low".
The art-punk eccentrics’ first album in six years is a woozy celebration of Britain’s sleazy past, and it sounds like nobody other than Clinic.
Clinic have always had one dial of their time machine pointed towards the past and one towards the future.
Liverpudlian quartet Clinic have bewildered listeners and confounded expectations for over two decades now.
With their short but immersive songs, the Liverpool psych-rockers underline their status as one of the UK’s most enthralling bands