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SpinThe result is some of the loosest, most facinating music of their career. [Apr 2008, p.92]
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Far from being a band at a crossroads, as might have been implicated around the release of "Funf," they reaffirm themselves here as one of our unsung independent music gems.
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Do It! finds Clinic getting curiouser and curiouser, but that's the direction that suits them best.
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Under The RadarClinic has returned to making music that feels limitless. [Spring 2008, p.7]
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Do It is simply a case of Clinic once again doing what they do best; but with a new-found vigour that rediscovers the confident swagger of earlier releases while building upon realms explored on later excursions.
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Alternative PressThe fifth disc in this succession proves Clinic never skip a beat or miss a step. [June 2008, p.134]
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No song is longer than three minutes and 30 seconds, and the band seems to be on a mission to get in, do it, and get out. It's that attitude that keeps Clinic a fixture, with an unsettling, enjoyable addition to its repertoire to boot.
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Clinic play with a renewed sense of the same eerie raucousness that drew people to them in the first place; this would be an easy second-album recommendation for a new fan after they've initially discovered and absorbed "Internal Wrangler."
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Do It! simply adds another 30 minutes to Clinic's quest to keep playing the perfect sound forever. With a sound as arresting as this, it's hard to fault them for not branching out more.
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It’s nothing new and it’s nothing scary, but its renewed vigor is encouraging.
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MagnetDo It! is accessible enough to appeal to both curious indie-pop fans and avant musos without an obscurantist chip in their shoulders. [Summer 2008, p.98]
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On their fifth album, they crack the window, slow the motor (except on 'Shopping Bag,' a jazz-punk binge and purge) and take side trips into primeval glades where runic rites are conducted on acoustic guitars.
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After five albums in just eight years, you could accuse Clinic of being one-note, but in an indie world besotted with cheap revivalism, at least you can't call them a gimmick.
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Do It! is a mediocre album, and further cements Clinic’s status as a retro novelty band.
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UncutMain;y, though, we leave Clinic where we always find them: nervously pacing the room, waiting for something to happen. [May 2007, p.92]
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If you pardon our French, Clinic’s fifth album is pretty fucked up--and yet it's also their best effort to date.
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Q MagazineUniquely weird, as usual. [May 2008, p.130]
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MojoIt's the kind of inimitably throbbing slice of neo-psychedelic unease they've knocked out with biennial constancy since 1999's Internal Wrangler. [May 2008, p.109]
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Yet, while it's unlikely that the previously familiar will be suddenly converted by these endeavours, it wouldn't be strictly fair to say that there's not the occasional hint of a broadened palette on display here.
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Do It! is about as radical as Clinic seem capable of, which is to say that they finally seem smothered by the borders they’ve set for themselves.
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Unless you're a big fan of the group, though, you'll probably find Do It! more than a little frustrating.
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Do It! is rarely dull. Uninspired? Yes. But it’s never dull.
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Do It! is the first Clinic record that seems assembled from bits of old Clinic records, its personality the result of combined ideas rather than new ones.
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LukeP.Apr 10, 2008It's already my favorite album of the year! The best since Walking With Thee!