Summary: Do It! is a summer album, a warped technicolor celebration -- pop music and severe cut-ups going from melody to acid psychosis to acoustic, usually in the same song. Recorded by Clinic in their Liverpool studio and mixed by Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, Archie Bronson Outfit), Do It! is a skewed pop amalgam of Motown, Exuma, deep lounge and The Balloon Farm (amongst many). Clinic’s magisterial fifth album 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.
