Best Covers: Clinic “I Can’t Stand the Rain”

Liverpool post-punks Clinic are releasing a new album, Fantasy Island, on October 22 via Domino. Now they have shared its third single, which is a cover of Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain.” The original was the title track to Peebles’ 1973 album of the same name. Clinic’s cover was shared via an Emily Evans-directed video.

Divus Julius presents: Clinic

Liverpool rock band Clinic have returned this year after a seven-year break with a new full-length release. Wheeltappers and Shunters . The record’s title was inspired by the 1970s ITV variety show “The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club,” which was set in a fictional working men’s club. The post-punk and pop experimentalists  first single is “Rubber Bullets.”

Favourite Gig: Preoccupations

Preoccupations (formerly Viet Cong), to the rescue of post-punk. Disturbing and profound both for their forms and for their lyrics, Preoccupations await you in Barcelona today at La [2] of Apolo. They are a project that you should listen to almost by obligation. For fans of Savages, Clinic, This Heat, Liars, Deerhoof, Sebadoh, Echo & The Bunnymen or Pavement. We go back even further to see the flavors of bands from the 80s like Joy Division, The Church, or The Fall. They pick up their sober and dark style and place it today.