Clinic announce first album in seven years with warped lead single "Rubber Bullets"

"Rubber Bullets", the psychedelic new single from Clinic, is their first new material since 2012's Free Reign album. It arrives with animated visuals created by Joseph May.

Clinic's seven-year break was somewhat an accident, and is broken by the news of their eighth album, of which the title takes inspiration from 1970s ITV variety show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club. Expanding on the title, Clinic's Ade Blackburn says, "It’s been a pisstake thing between us for quite a few years. Whenever we’d talk about a song sounding too "cabaret" or too nice, we’d say, "That’s a bit Wheeltappers and Shunters"."

They recorded the album at founding member Jonathan Hartley's Liverpool studio, before recruiting Dilip Harris (King Krule, Sons Of Kemet, Mount Kimbie) to mix the album.

Speaking about their upcoming record, Blackburn adds, "It’s a satirical take on British culture - high and low. It fascinates me that people look back on the 1970s as the glory days. 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."

Tracklist:

1. Laughing Cavalier
2. Complex
3. Rubber Bullets
4. Tiger
5. Ferryboat of the Mind
6. Mirage
7. D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E
8. Flying Fish
9. Be Yourself/Year of the Sadist
10. Congratulations
11. Rejoice!
12. New Equations at the Copacabana