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Liverpool art-rockers Clinic have been playing a few gigs around America over the past few days in support of last Tuesday's domestic release of their debut full-length, Internal Wrangler. I had a chance to talk with the band at their Saturday night gig at Chicago's Empty Bottle venue, where, upon being asked, they revealed that they've finished recording a new album.

"It's always gonna have a sort of twist to it," frontman Ade Blackburn said of the band's music. "[The new album] will have the main sort of elements that were on the Internal Wrangler album. On Internal Wrangler, I think it was kind of shorter fragments of ideas, and the newer songs are sort of fuller and more spacious, allowing more rooted ideas to develop." Internal Wrangler originally saw release last year on the then-UK-only independent, Domino Records.

Though not yet titled, the new record will definitely feature four songs Clinic debuted in August of 2000 on the BBC's John Peel Show, namely: "The Bridge," "Jouster," "The Nuns," and "Daishiki." Blackburn said that the album should be released early next year. Presently, they're planning on rescheduling some tour dates in New York and New Jersey that were canceled due to last week's World Trade Center tragedy, after which they'll join Radiohead on tour for some dates in Japan. When asked whether they would play at this year's CMJ Festival, which was pushed back until mid-October, Blackburn said that it was not definite, but that there is a good chance.