Klinik – Time

Tastes are different, yes. When it comes to this album, the reviews are often not as positive as with other Klinik releases. So I write this to encourage you to buy this album, simply because it's great! I never understood, why the band did not like it... For me it is the 2nd best Klinik record after "Melting Close + Sabotage". It's hypnotic, repetitive, cold atmospheric... and this is what The Klinik were all about. You won't find any classic hits here, no stuff like "Memories" or "Moving Hands", but that's actually what's especially good about "Time". Similar to "Sabotage" and the "Box" it's a rather obscure, enigmatic record. So for those who prefer such lost gems over the electro/industrial mainstream "Time" is perfect.

Under the House is in my opinion the one that aged the best of this bunch, very fun to mix with dubstep. In fact, one could argue this is a proto-dubstep tune.

A controversial album, released when the duo had already disbanded and the Klinik moniker had ed into the hands of the solo Marc Verhaegen. The sound is not as good as we were used to listen from them, and some songs, especially "Under The House", "Time" and "Touch Your Skin", sound like incomplete drafts. Moreover, Dirk Ivens' vocals are mastered very low, and are therefore not clearly audible in most ages. Nonetheless, this LP is worth just for three denied Klinik classics such as "Someone Somewhere", "Dead Meat" and "Obsession", the latter in this more industrial, violent and noisy "LP Version", far superior to the one appeared on the "Black Leather" 12". Don't start with this if you don't have anything by The Klinik, go directly to "Plague", "Face To Face" and "Melting Close + Sabotage", but then come back and give a try to this lost album.