Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Though some of the thrashier songs like "C.Q." and "T.K." and a bottom-heavy song sequence detract from the album's flow, Internal Wrangler is still a strong debut from one of England's most promising and distinctive indie bands.
  2. It's one of those releases that reminds you that with all the experimenting and genre-blurring, there is still something simple and nice about an album that takes fairly base elements of rock and roll and creates a disc that's highly catchy.
  3. 70
    An angular art-punk record that twitches as if in the throes of electroshock treatment.
  4. At 31 minutes, the record is a short and bitter mind-melter.
  5. 90
    Little short of brilliant. [#52, p.79]
  6. The style is cool, the moves perfect, but you can take as much of lasting value from a stick of gum as you can from these dank-basement stomps.
  7. The true beauty of Clinic is that they have, using a relatively standard rock vocabulary, constructed a truly distinctive, energetic, and magnetically appealing sound.
  8. Part Radiohead, part Velvet Underground, Internal Wrangler is the bizarre, formless album that Thom Yorke wishes he could make.
  9. Though not without merit, the reliance on other people's melodies (and words on the Caroline Says-pilfering Distortions) can become trying after a while.
  10. By twisting the features of various stylistic forefathers - the Velvet Underground, early Pink Floyd, Can, Wire - they've created a new hybrid of bratty garage rock and whimsical sonic experimentation that delights in its own mutant energy.
  11. 90
    So rewind to indie-rock the way Mark E. Smith started it: reduced, smart, and dirty-sweet as used bubble gum. [Oct 2001, p.130]
  12. 100
    Absolutely essential!... It’s a coming-out party on the level of My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
  13. A terrific head-scratcher of a debut
User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 12 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Feb 26, 2012
    Incredible amounts of awesomeness lie within this album, what are you waiting for? This has got to be one of my favorite albums of all time. Give it a listen! You won't regret it at all! Full Review »
  2. BenjaminBunny
    Apr 17, 2004
    Play this one loud. Very loud. Seriously.