The follow-up to 2012's Free Reign, was recorded last year in founding band member Hartley's Liverpool studio, before they brought in Dilip Harris (King Krule, Sons Of Kemet, Mount Kimbie) to mix it, and will be released on May 10th through Domino Records.
The unusual name is taken from the long-forgotten 1970s ITV variety show The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, compered by Bernard Manning, which recreated the smoky, boozy atmosphere of Northern working men's clubs for a sofa-bound audience.
“It’s been a pisstake thing between us for quite a few years,” reveals Ade Blackburn, Clinic spokesman, of the show that the album title references. “Whenever we’d talk about a song sounding too ‘cabaret’ or too nice, we’d say, ‘That’s a bit Wheeltappers and Shunters’.
“It’s a satirical take on British culture - high and low,” he says. “It fascinates me that people look back on the 1970s as the glory days. It’s emerged that there was a darker, more perverse side to that time. When you look back on it now it was quite clearly there in mainstream culture.”
Pre-order the album here, check out the tracklist and the video for the lead single "Rubber Bullets", below.
Wheeltappers and Shunters Tracklist:
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
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