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Clinic's third full-length album capitalizes on the band's skill for mixing haunting, memorable melodies and surging rhythms into a chilly, keyboard-dominated post-punk sound. Lead singer Ade Blackburn's effects-drenched, angst-y vocals wend around snake-charmer clarinet melodies and distorted, wiry guitar on "The Magician." "Country Mile" and "Anne" are characterized by insistent tempos, but also feel architecturally minimal, while voices, effects, and instruments (a tambourine, most notably) create increasing tension in the expansive, moody atmosphere of the mix.
These attributes should be familiar to fans of the band's arty aesthetic, and WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL's excellent production highlights the group's sonic tricks. "Home," for example, a spectral, melancholic ballad, features the disturbingly loud sound of a baby rattle encircled by twangy, reverbed electric guitar. A mesmerizing phaser effect on "The Majestic #2" makes the song sound as though it were being sung through an oscillating, underwater fan. The album reveals some fine pop songwriting too, as on soulful, stirring "Falstaff," while the hard-edged "WDYYB" proves the Liverpudlians can also rock with abandon. While not a great leap forward (stylistically, WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL takes a cue its predecessor WALKING WITH THEE), this batch of dark, distinctive, post-punk-influenced tracks will not disappoint Clinic's following.
Clinic (1990s-2000s): Brian Campbell (vocals, flute, bass guitar); Ade Blackburn (vocals, melodica, keyboards); Hartley (guitar, clarinet, keyboards); Carl Turney (piano, drums, background vocals).
Photographer: Jason Evans.Uncut (p.95) - 3 stars out of 5 - "[A]nother delirious half-hour of, mainly, mannered asthmatic psychobilly....Remarkably, this bizarre outfit just got weirder, and how it suits them."
Alternative Press (p.140) - 4 out of 5 - "[T]he results are as thrilling as ever."
CMJ (p.5) - "WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL provides enough familiar melodies to keep everyone's speakers blaring at full volume." Winchester Cathedral Music Winchester Cathedral Music Winchester Cathedral Music Review Purchase Winchester Cathedral CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Grandaddy Sumday CD (2003) Enhanced CD
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 $11.59  
Picking up where 2000's celebrated SOPHTWARE SLUMP left off, SUMDAY continues to mine that particular vein of spacey, '60s-influenced indie ...
| | Shins Chutes Too Narrow CD (2003)
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$12.49 
Recorded in James Mercer's Basement, Portland, Oregon and Avasti Studio, Seattle, Washington.
When the Shins bowled over music fans and critics alike in 2001 seemingly out of nowhere (but actually out of Albuquerque and years of playing together) with OH, INVERTED WORLD, their stunningly beautiful debut, the comparisons came pouring in. Scribes likened their insistent, melodic sound and James Mercer's hyper-literate, oblique but mellifluous lyrics to many mostly anachronistic, all deeply revered sources, including everything from the Beach Boys to Love.
The follow-up, CHUTES TOO NARROW, meets and often manages to exceed the tremendous, burgeoning buzz surrounding it. Mercer and co. retain all the elements that made their debut delectable, as the melodies flow hither and thither, a subtle rapture confident in its ability to entrance. Delicately crafted yet explosively poetic lines again abound (such as "secretly I ...
| | Walkmen Bows And Arrows CD (2004)
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$11.39
A rock revivalist opus similar to those by the Strokes and Stripes, the Walkmen's sophomore effort is a genuine rock "album" in the traditional sense: each song is unique to the others and it all fits together as a cohesive work of art. Instant classics include "The Rat," with vocalist Hamilton Leithauser screaming out with so much lonely rage that two tracks later (on "Little House of Savages"), the shredded walls of his throat fall away like rocket boosters fueled by Matt Barrick's long, flying drum-fill of a beat.
Mellower tracks "138th Street" and "Hang on Siobhan" provide ample evidence that these boys are ...
| | Kaiser Chiefs Employment CD (2005)
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$8.49
Emerging in an era rife with New Wave rip-off artists, the Kaiser Chiefs ran the risk of their sharp suits, angular haircuts, and early-1980s influences being taken the wrong way. While many of their peers ...
| | Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass CD (2006)
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$9.95
With 2006's cheekily titled I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS, the beloved ...
| | Clinic Visitations CD (2006) Deluxe Version
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$12.99
Four albums in--an eternity in British rock--Clinic must be considered among the greatest ...
| | Bender Jehovah's Hitlist CD (2000)
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$9.85 
Bender brings something back to hard rock--real singing. Vocalist Kent Boyce's unique timbre combines the darkness of Alice In Chains' Layne Staley and the raw emotion of the late Mother Love Bone singer Andrew Wood. On its auspicious debut JEHOVAH'S HITLIST, the band merges classic hard rock with industrial and metal textures.
"Passion Flower" finds Boyce's vocals balanced between graceful and gruff; instrumentally the band responds in kind. The ...
| | Ray Bonneville Gust Of Wind CD (1999) (Import) Canada
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$15.65
Ray Bonneville combines electric blues motifs, a light sense of humor, and a pop approach to song-making. On pieces like the opening "Don't Look Back," with electric piano from Richard Bell, this combination comes across as a sort of Memphis Randy Newman. Colin Linden here produces this unique, memorable Canadian songwriter on his third album. Linden provides slide, baritone, and other guitar work on the album. Like Linden, Bonneville is adept at incorporating blues styles into accessible pop gems. Recorded in Canada and Nashville, ...
| | Skeletons In The Closet: The Best Of Oingo Boingo CD (1989)
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$6.39
| | Jose-Luis Orozco Diez Deditos CD (2005)
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$11.35
| | Edwyn Collins Keep On Burning, PT. 1 CD (1996)
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$5.59
Keep On Burning, Pt. 1 is the second single from Edwyn Collins' excellent 1997 album, I'm Not Following You. Apart from the title track, a wonderfully bouncy, Northern soul-inspired groover, the disc contains one non-LP track and two remixes. "Lava Lamp" is a soundscape built on fluttering organs, white noise, and whooshing synths, and as such isn't of much interest. The two remixes of tracks from Collins' previous album, Gorgeous George, fare better. ...
| | Faith Ako Ku Kahi CD (2007)
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$16.45
Ku KahiKu Kahi is a Hawaiian phrase meaning "standing alone." I thought this was appropriate for the title of my first solo album. The songs were selected from many sources, some of which came from my many years of associating with hula halaus here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Others were selected because they were childhood favorites. The common thread is that all these songs soothe and comfort my soul, enabling me to connect my voice ...
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