Clinic - 'The Witch'

Anyone who has ever witnessed the surgically costumed strangeness of Clinic live will be aware that chart success has never been particularly high on this Liverpudlian four-piece’s list of priorities.  Things are no different with new single ‘The Witch’, which also announces the release of Clinic’s fifth studio album next month.  Describing the escape from a modern-day witch-hunt in search of a new future, the single has a sixties-sensible dance floor chug about it, carried through with lingering trade-mark organ backing and lisping, swing-like percussion.  Ade Blackburn’s distinctive acid vocals are beguiling, making for a psychedelic track that practically defies named comparisons.  Clinic have long established themselves as rather fashionably commercially elusive, yet always critically adored, and their latest single shows little signs of any swing to the mainstream.

Released 24/03/08 on Domino.