Sound: Hypnotic organs grind and drone, fuzzy guitars slash and echo, and fiendish vocals coo and sneer. Once again, Clinic takes you on a creepy freak-out where minimalism and repetition conjure images of a sweaty, tribal ceremony.
Heavy Rotation tracks: none
Medium Rotation tracks: “Harvest (Within You)”; “If You Could Read Your Mind”; “Family”; “Gideon”
Explicit Lyrics*: none
Recommended: Clinic’s retro/psychedelic/surf punk felt revolutionary on their first two albums. By their fourth album, the possibilities seem limited for them. Nonetheless, Visitations has a healthy variety of classic Clinic moods: urgent, ominous, trance-inducing and wickedly sedated.
Grade: B

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