Clinic - Come Into Our Room

What this video is

Released in 2002 as the second single from Clinic's Grammy-nominated album 'Walking With Thee' on Domino Records, 'Come Into Our Room' arrived at the apex of the UK post-punk revival, sharing chart and cultural space with The Strokes, The White Stripes, and Franz Ferdinand. Clinic occupied a singular, deliberately oblique position within that wave: a Liverpool art-punk quartet drawing on garage rock, Velvet…

Why it matters

A defining artefact of early 2000s UK art-punk and the Domino Records aesthetic; 'Come Into Our Room' demonstrates how the post-punk revival could extend beyond retro pastiche into genuinely uncanny, psychedelic territory. Clinic's fusion of organ-driven garage rock, dub pulse, and…

The director

Scott Lyon studied Graphics at Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, specialising in photography, and won the Vogue Young Photography Award in his first year of graduation. He became a fashion photographer for publications including i-D, The Face,…