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Walking With Thee
by Clinic


9.1

based on 24 reviews
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The distinctive Liverpool indie/garage band is back with a follow-up to their well-received 2000 debut 'Internal Wrangler' (which was just released last fall in the U.S.). The positive press generated by these two releases led to the band signing a major-label deal with Universal, which re-released 'Walking With Thee' on August 6, 2002.

LABEL:	Domino / Universal
RELEASE DATE:	05 March 2002
DISCS:	1 disc
GENRE(S):	Indie, Rock

NOTES: Also available on vinyl.

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E! Online

Just like the architects behind Kid A, they take all these creepy elements and make something totally excellent.

Entertainment Weekly

A major step forward, with complete songs built around a rhythmic pulse that owes nothing to modern dance-music conventions but would still sound spectacular in a sweaty club.

PopMatters

This is an album of controlled kinetics and clockwork alignments, of bonding repetition and mindful invention; where words poke and play, bubble and pop, echo and disturbingly hang.

Alternative Press

Clinic have evolved from a set of brilliantly mixed parts into a distinctive whole to be reckoned with. [Apr 2002, p.71]

Splendid

For all of Walking with Thee's obvious musical accomplishments, its most impressive facet is the ability to transcend all the hype, hoopla and haranguing surrounding its release.

The Onion (A.V. Club)

The album is so like last year's terrific Internal Wrangler that it feels more like a companion than a sequel.

Austin Chronicle

Great albums are great from the very first note, and the first 10 seconds of Walking With Thee will stop you dead in your tracks.

Spin

Clinic remember that Britpop is supposed to be fun. [Mar 2002, p.127]

L.A. Weekly

Sure, the songs are short, fast and catchy, but Clinic isn't filling prescriptions for ear candy; the music cuts into you with a desolate, sarcastic, scalpel-sharp edge.

Uncut

A cleaner operation than their previous LP, but no less unorthodox. [Apr 2002, p.95]

Blender

An accessible art-punk collection. [Apr/May 2002, p.112]

Salon.com

It's the unsettling undercurrent of angst and unease with the modern world that's earning this group comparisons to the favorite art punks of the moment, Radiohead. But Clinic's songs are much less static and harshly digital, and much more groove-oriented.

Mojo

Clinic just aren't as sinister as they first seem. They're damaged, but friendly and worth visiting. [Mar 2002, p.105]

Pitchfork

Walking with Thee is neither an album of triumph nor of disappointment.

Almost Cool

The disc as a whole has sort of an austere quality that lets some of the fun out of the sails.

Billboard

Walking With Thee feels more like a transition record than a definitive statement in its own right.

Resonance

A modern testament to what pop savvy, a good record collection and a frustrated libido can accomplish. [#34, p.68]

Dot Music

Imagine an album programmed by a focus group of John Peel fanatics.

Playlouder

'Walking With Thee' is a smoothed-over cacophony where the surreal meets the jovial and declares it an octagonal fish - deadly seriousness with a hint of smirk.

All Music Guide

Clinic is still one of the most intriguing acts around, and while this isn't the masterpiece the band has the potential to deliver, an interesting disappointment from them is still better than a successful but boring album from a less-inspired group.

New Musical Express

'Walking With Thee' is barely forty minutes in length, but feels about half that length - not because it flies by, but because throughout, it barely feels substantial.

CDNow

While the band's sound is unique, too many of the remaining ten songs play like slight variations of each other, and few of them stick.

Neumu.net

Walking With Thee isn't a rehashing of last year's Internal Wrangler; it's actually an inferior version of it.

Q Magazine

There's something rather pinched and prescribed about this weirdness.

The average user rating for this album is 9.1 (out of 10) based on 9 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Bob R gave it a10:
Phucking brilliant.

Benjamin Bunny gave it a 7:
It's simply "Internal Wranger" part two--a near-identical sequel with a bigger budget but less heart.

David C gave it a 10:
My observation: those already familiar with Clinic were somewhat dissapointed with this release, while those who discovered Clinic with Walking With Thee were enthralled. I got both at the same time and was blown away, and found this release every bit as hypnotically brilliant as Internal Wrangler. I strongly recommend both to any true music lover.

Michael E. gave it an 8:
Good, but the last 5 songs don't live up to the first 6. But even they're okay. "The Equaliser" is awesome.

John D. gave it an 8:
I first thought this was the side project of the art group known as The Clinic because they have mp3's on their site (www.theclinic.ontheweb.nu), but you can't download them. None the less, I found these guys to be very groovey

Mickey T. gave it a 10:
Awesome yet highly unrecognized artist!!

Michael S. gave it a 9:
Absolutely amazing. Sounds like Radiohead (Kid A, Amnesiac) mixed with Coldplay plus the melodica which will make this album forever and futurely defined as that Clinic sound. One or two somewhat tedious songs prevents it from being a 10.

Walking With Thee by Clinic

Walking With Thee
by Clinic