Clinic's music is a sulphate groove once the sulphate has started to wear off. Over four albums they have refined and re-melded their nervy kinesis around the yelps and howls of Ade Blackburn who often sounds like someone coming up with a strategy for leaving their own body. This quartet from Liverpool exploded into life about 9 years ago, making an instant impact with a homemade single IPC Sub Editors Dictate Our Youth and a clutch of EPs. Signing to Domino, they released their brilliant debut long player, Internal Wrangler in 2000, toured with Radiohead and appeared at Scott Walker's Meltdown.

In 2002, second album, Walking With Thee earned them lavish praise in the US, where they appeared often, before recording the dense and spooky Winchester Cathedral, released in 2004. Their interior logic runs to a kraut organ shuffle, Pablo / East of the River Mersey melodica lines, lock groove drums and vorticist shifts in tension. Clinic don't write songs so much as essays in twitching, convulsive thought patterns set to an oscillating tempo and delivered behind a group identity of surgeon's masks.

Visitations (2006) shows them at their most psychedelic and at their most singular - just like all their records. Clinic are from Liverpool, but that's where the similarity with any other quartet ends. In fact, Clinic sound like The Beatles never happened, as if pop remained in permanent thrall to Joe Meek before jumping straight to Studio One dub. Or as if The Shangri-Las drifted into Crime. Because Clinic sound like no other band. As individual as Suicide or The Monks, as self-sufficient as The Residents, they describe a twilit place: the streets surrounding John Carpenter's Precinct 13, the disco on the inhabited side of the moon. Clinic's magisterial fifth album Do It! opens with what sounds like the melodious chimes of a harpsichord before all hell breaks loose. Asking you if you want the good or the bad news, the song lurches between Ade Blackburn’s bittersweet vocal line concerning memory and the band tearing itself inside out. Do It! is a record dripping in a delicious and seductive tension. Clinic have never sounded so relaxed and so uptight.