Only Hinting

by Clinic Stars

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dj duMars Beautiful slowcore from the Great Lakes! Definitely a record for whisperpop obsessives. Favorite track: She Won't Be.

ukino55 Que alegría tener la oportunidad de descubrir bandas como esta. Slowcore? Shoegaze? Dream pop? O todo en uno? Pero por encima de todo emociones, sensibilidades... Favorite track: Only Hinting.

Mute Branches Pretty much perfectly timed for the start of the chilly Autumn weather. Really thoughtfully textural in a way that reminds me of the very underrated album 'When You Arrive Here' by IKEBANA Favorite track: I Am The Dancer.

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1.	Kissing Through The Veil 02:54	buy track
2.	Only Hinting 05:39	buy track
3.	I Am The Dancer 06:24	buy track
4.	Remain 04:43	buy track
5.	She Won't Be 05:50	buy track
6.	Shiver (Walking Over Time) 04:04	buy track
7.	Isn't It 03:44	buy track
8.	Thoughtless 04:41	buy track

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The full-length debut by Detroit duo Giovanna Lenski and Christian Molik aka Clinic Stars both refines and redefines their pitch-perfect fusion of downer-pop balladry and featherweight shoegaze: Only Hinting. Recorded and produced at the band’s home studio, the album was crafted across 2022 and 2023, patiently layering FX and spatial depths to give each song a swirling, subconscious undertow. From the strummed whirlpool of “I Am The Dancer” to the gated reverb of “Remain” to the greyscale guitar reverie of “Isn’t It,” the record aches as much as moves, daydreaming of escape and transcendence.

The group cite a desire to leave their “industrial environment” as muse, although the songs also revel in the romance of longing itself, in the beauty of hearts grown distant. The duo’s previous EPs, 10,000 Dreams (2021) and April’s Past (2022), captured a similarly swooning slowcore palette, but Only Hinting hits different. Here haze is as much instrument as texture, gauze and melody married as one, traced in elegant arcs across cities streaked in shadow.

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released September 20, 2024

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