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The Mulholland Free Clinic 'The Mulholland Free Clinic' (Away Music)
Veering between atmospheric dark ambient, bubbling electro psychedelia and narco techno, these all-analogue pieces from experimental supergroup The Mulholland Free Clinic (Move D, Juju & Jordash and Jonah Sharp) are a wonderfully fluid entity. Edited down to album length from its original three-hour live session, its opener, ‘Vital Signs’, sprawls across 17 minutes in a droney wash of ambient tics and sinuous chords. On ‘Ebb & Flow’, flecks of druggy guitar and wonky acid arps head into DJ Harvey-style Balearic territory, but it’s ‘The Dawgs Are Alright’ that best sums the album up, morphing from abstract techno into a delicious, witching hour freakout. Stephen Worthy
8/10
