Liverpool rock band Clinic have returned after a seven-year break with a new full-length release. Wheeltappers and Shunters arrives May 10 on Domino. The record’s title was inspired by the 1970s ITV variety show “The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club,” which was set in a fictional working men’s club. The album’s first single “Rubber Bullets” is out today—check out its accompanying music video, directed by Joseph May, below. Scroll down for the Wheeltappers and Shunters album art and tracklist.
In a press release, Clinic’s Ade Blackburn said, “We thought it felt right to make a fun, dancefloor album in these dark and conservative times.” Clinic’s last album was 2012’s Free Reign. In 2013, Oneohtrix Point Never mixed and helped repackage the record as Free Reign II.
Read about Clinic’s 2002 LP Walking With Thee in “6 Pitchfork Staffers on the Best Albums They Found Based on the Cover Art” on the Pitch.
Wheeltappers and Shunters:
01 Laughing Cavalier
02 Complex
03 Rubber Bullets
04 Tiger
05 Ferryboat of the Mind
06 Mirage
07 D.I.S.C.I.P.L.E.
08 Flying Fish
09 Be Yourself/Year of the Sadist
10 Congratulations
11 Rejoice!
12 New Equations at the Copacabana
