ACCLAIMED indie electro band, Clinic, release a new single this month and an album and tour in March.

Walking with Thee is released on Monday February 11 on Domino Records, followed by an album of the same name on Monday March 4.

The band's tour calls on Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street, Cardiff, on Monday March 4. Clinic's new album is their second and is as distinctive as the first, Internal Wrangler, which followed Clinic, a compilation album of the band's first three singles.

The Liverpudlian four-piece has been compared to everyone from the likes of German prog rockers, Can, and Shangri-La, and everyone in between.

Clinic are Ade Blackburn (guitar, keyboards and vocals), Brian Campbell (bass and backing vocals), Hartley (guitar, clarinet and keyboards) and Carl Turney (drums). Although, electro in feel, most of Walking with Thee is played by the musicians rather than the band's vast stack of samplers.

Turney turns in a crisp, clinical even, electro like beat, which with Blackburn's distant vocals and Hartley's honks on the clarinet make up the nearest thing you could call, a trademark Clinic sound.

From therein, everything varies from track to track. Harmony is space-aged coffee lab music, Welcome is a gloriously kitsch piece of candy-covered pop with one of the catchiest lines this century, "Who would disintegrate for?" And Pet Eunuch is an electro barnstormer with more in common with Sven Vath's more recent tunes than krautrock.

l Clinic play Clwb Ifor Bach, Womanby Street, Cardiff on Monday March 4. An interview with Clinic's main man, Ade Brown, will run in Mono before that date.