Rhian Askins
Clinic have shared more from their first new studio album in seven years.
Making a welcome return with Wheeltappers And Shunters on May 10th, the band have followed up its lead track Rubber Bullets with Laughing Cavalier. “One of my favourite things is those contradictions,” Ade Blackburn says.
“Having the rug pulled from under you. I think that’s exciting – where you think you’ve got the measure of something but then that shifts. It’s not just about the double meaning with a line, it’s also about the way it’s sung. You can interpret something in the opposite way just from the delivery.”
Taking his cue from the 1970s British variety show which the album is named after, Blackburn has previously said the LP is ‘a satirical take on British culture – high and low’. “It fascinates me that people look back on the 1970s as the glory days,” he added. “It’s emerged that there was a darker, more perverse side to that time. When you look back on it now it was quite clearly there in mainstream culture.”
