Internal Wrangler

'Internal Wrangler', the debut album by Clinic, shows just what can be done for pop music by avoiding not just the middle of the road but the whole road entirely. Clinic have found stuff that's been lying around on the verges, marginalised and overlooked, and pushed them to the forefront of their newly patented cure. It's a unique synthesis of everything that's been good about music for the past 500 years. You'll hear and see people you know you've heard and seen before, but never quite like this. Everyone's met the protagonist of 'The Return Of Evil Bill', they just can't place him. You thought you knew what country music was until you heard the cosmic campfire epiphany of 'TK'. And yeah, you know you've danced a '2nd Foot Stomp' before, but you never knew that's what it was called, nor that it would feel this good. Noise, silence, peace and violence, they're all here. 'Internal Wrangler' speaks for itself: it's medicine for the soul, a love transfusion service, the kindest of all cuts. It's Clinic, down at the funky hospital, bringing us back to life, getting better all the time.