Clinic - Distortions

What this video is

Released in July 2000 as the third single from Clinic's celebrated debut album Internal Wrangler, 'Distortions' emerged at a pivotal moment in UK independent music when the post-Britpop cultural vacuum was being filled by art-punk, experimental, and post-punk revival acts. Clinic, a Liverpool quartet known for performing in surgical masks and nurses' uniforms as an homage to The Residents and San Francisco art…

Why it matters

A key artefact in the post-punk revival's visual vocabulary, the 'Distortions' video embodies the deliberately austere, anti-spectacle aesthetic of Domino Records-era UK indie. Clinic's fusion of garage rock, organ-driven psychedelia, Velvet Underground cool, and Suicide's icy minimalism had no…