EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Clean - Tensile
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(Photo: Tim Soter)
No year on Earth can be all bad if the Clean are releasing a new album. The Kiwi postpunk legends make 2009 that much better with Mister Pop one week from today, so the gang at Merge trapdoored “Tensile” on us as an exclusive anti-bomb to lob right along to you. The synth-affected vox are a new idea, but otherwise it’s a classic Cleano production of the casually perfect stripe: keyboard crescents darting around three- and four-note guitar and bass figures, all green-lighted by their particular sort of Krautpop beat—the one where the robotic severity is replaced by ultra-human grooviness.
Previously:
The Clean - In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul
