Premiere: Clinic: "Dissolution: The Dream of Bartholomew" [Stream]
Clinic recite foreboding incantations on this B-side to UK single "If You Could Read Your Mind". A single fuzzy guitar saws over the tribal beat, breaking intermittently for menacing chants uttered atop windchimes. It's hard to make out what's being said through the dense echo, but words like "spirits," "angels," "lord," and "crucified" emerge, as possible references to biblical figure Bartholomew's call to apostleship-- although sonically, it more readily invokes bloody martyrdom. St. Bartholomew was flayed alive before ultimately being crucified upside down, but it's hard to tell whether Clinic are on God's side here.
[from the "If You Could Read Your Mind" UK single; out 2/07/07 on Domino] | [ORDER]
We also ran the video for "If You Could Read Your Mind" earlier this month, but you know what, we might as well post it again 'cause wtf: