Originally written by Gareth Dobson · 23 June 2003
Clearlake
Come Into The Darkness/The Mind Is Evil
Label: Domino Records Release Date: 23/06/2003
Bit of an anomaly, Clearlake; what with residing on Domino and being a particularly and steadfastly English band. If one was being cruel, you’d say that another anomally for them as a Domino band is that they’re decidely uninteresting.
Despite their best efforts, ‘Come Into The Darkness’ chugs and gurns where it should artfully scrawl, sounding like a cheap promenade Pink Floyd married to Graham Coxon in detox. Other ‘A’ side, ‘The Mind Is Evil’ sounds like a festering, bad Libertines dream where all vaudevillian pretences run amok into a souped up sepia dirge. Avoid like the black plague – a disease last seen roughly around the same time as this type of music was in anyway popular.
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