Clinic Wheeltappers And Shunters

Release date:
May 10, 2019
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Vinyl LP pressing. After an unprecedented seven year break, Clinic - Liverpool's cherished post-punk pop experimentalists - return with album number eight. The unusual name is taken from the long-forgotten 1970s ITV variety show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, compered by Bernard Manning, which recreated the smoky, boozy atmosphere of Northern working men's clubs for a sofa-bound audience. This album is neither a celebration nor a denigration of the culture of the era in which Adrian Blackburn and his collaborator-in-chief, Jonathan Hartley, grew up.

Tracklist:
  • 1. Laughing Cavalier
  • 2. Complex
  • 3. Rubber Bullets
  • 4. Tiger
  • 5. Ferryboat of the Mind
  • 6. Mirage
  • 7. D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E
  • 8. Flying Fish
  • 9. Be Yourself/Year of the Sadist
  • 10. Congratulations
  • 11. Rejoice!
  • 12. New Equations (at the Copacabana)