{"id":8848,"date":"2013-02-06T15:11:36","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8848"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:12:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T22:12:53","slug":"clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/clinic\/","title":{"rendered":"CLINIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8849\" title=\"CLINIC-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CLINIC-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CLINIC-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/CLINIC-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>C<\/strong><strong>LINIC<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Free Reign<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Domino]<\/p>\n<p>On their self-produced seventh album, these Leeds art-rockers trade intensity for laser-like focus. Something intangible pushes the songs forward, despite seemingly loose constructions. While Free Reign marks the return of Clinic\u2019s trademark fuzzy guitars\u2014lacking on their previous album, the mostly acoustic Bubblegum\u2014the sound is less bristly than on earlier efforts. It\u2019s also more psychedelic, with vintage organs providing swirling texture and bass lines adding rubber-band snap. Singer Ade Blackburn has a consistently cool delivery, and swinging from stoic to world-weary, he expresses desires with an air of resignation. His lyrics can be perplexing, like when he makes a refrain of the word \u201cseesaw\u201d on the track of the same name, but they\u2019re suited to the music. Occasionally, Free Reign takes somnambulant turns, but the ticking, barely audible percussion guides listeners through each dreamlike landscape. After years of thrashing about, Clinic is ready to pause and look around. \u2013Amanda Farah<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLINIC Free Reign [Domino] On their self-produced seventh album, these Leeds art-rockers trade intensity for laser-like focus. Something intangible pushes the songs forward, despite seemingly loose constructions. While Free Reign marks the return of Clinic\u2019s trademark fuzzy guitars\u2014lacking on their previous album, the mostly acoustic Bubblegum\u2014the sound is less bristly than on earlier efforts. It\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,5940,167,5941,5885],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8848"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8851,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8848\/revisions\/8851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}