• Record Label: Domino
  • Release Date: Jan 23, 2007
Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 23 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 23
  2. Negative: 1 out of 23
  1. Alternative Press
    60
    A sobering reminder of how frustrating it can be when a talented group become tethered to their established aesthetic. [Feb 2007, p.118]
  2. Under The Radar
    60
    Despite the album's failure to forge any radical new ground... Visitations still offers some satisfaction by giving longtime fans exactly the sort of spooky rhythms and cryptic lyrics that made them fall in love with the band in the first place. [#16, p.90]
  3. Most albums become familiar with repeated listens; this just grows more strange.
  4. Paste Magazine
    60
    Visitations is a return to Internal Wrangler's more straightforward form. It's not as revelatory the second time around, but it plays to Clinic's main strength. [Feb 2007, p.57]
  5. Unfortunately, for those who've been hanging around waiting for Clinic to eclipse its past achievements, Visitations feels like one step forward, too many steps back.
User Score
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User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. MelS
    Jan 25, 2007
    9
    Are you in the mood for a fuzzed out punk folk foot stomper (whatever that is)? Well then this is the album for you. Starting the best Are you in the mood for a fuzzed out punk folk foot stomper (whatever that is)? Well then this is the album for you. Starting the best opening song of the year,'Family' (nothing else comes close), Visitations moves at a breakneck speed through wah-wah guitar fuelled ballads, blistering non-intelligible punk thrashers and accoustic death marches and then clocks out as soon as it came barely 30 minutes later. There is no other album like it right now and no other album rewards replays more than this. It seems simple, but these 11 (and 1 intermission) songs will keep you hooked and coming back for months. If you give them the chance. Full Review »
  2. mikes.
    Jan 23, 2007
    6
    the best clinic album to date, it seem they have finally developed their own sound and are out of radiohead's shadow. Good if your into the best clinic album to date, it seem they have finally developed their own sound and are out of radiohead's shadow. Good if your into expreimental music, this release will satisfy Full Review »