‘Do It!’ is a summer album, a warped technicolour celebration, pop music and severe cut-ups going from melody to acid psychosis to acoustic, usually in the same song.

SKEWED: The off-kilter scousers have offered up a magisterial fifth album in ‘Do It!’

A skewed pop amalgam of Motown, Exuma, deep lounge and The Ballroom Farm.

Recorded by Clinic, ‘Do It!’ is the Liverpool band’s magisterial fifth album. 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.

On ‘Free Not Free’ you’d be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a lost Isley Brothers acetate; until a guitar intervenes and the sense of revere mutates, as it often does, into caustic comedown.

‘Marie And Eddie’ features a classic melody line, eerie and intense for a turn around the psychic dancehall. But however spooked and hallucinatory the imagery, ‘Do It!’ is equally exuberant, giddy and up.

The album closes with the sound of church bells, the rhythmic sway of a drunken waltz and a guitar trying to mace someone – leaving you feeling peaceful, confused and pretty stunned.
(4/5)

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