With each passing album, Liverpool's Clinic have steadily shown that they are nowhere near as revolutionary as once thought when they burst onto the Indie-Rock scene in 2000 with Internal Wrangler. This is now their third LP since that once supposed moment of witnessing a band destined to be influential for decades to come. Unfortunately Visitations is, for the most part, just another rehash of stuff we've already heard and stuff we wish we'd no longer have to hear – they should have named it "re-visitations."

Visitations doesn't start off completely warmed-over however. Opener "Family" actually adds some decent guitar solos to their usual chug-a-lug style sound and the wah-wah peddles used on "Animal/Human" are used for affect perfectly. Even the fuller sound on "Gideon" with its crunchier than we're used to guitars and tambourine is a welcome surprise.

After that however, Visitations goes downhill without so much as a bump. Every song starts to sound just like everything we've already heard from Internal Wrangler and Walking With Thee, right down to the repetitive guitar and melodica licks that they've regurged time and time again. The blame lies solely on the band who hired mega British producer Gareth Jones to sit behind the boards once again, even though he helped to create the sound heard on their debut record. Bad move for a band that needs to do anything but make a return to form. This album is decent and fresh enough for anyone who has never heard Clinic; honestly they don't sound like anyone else and you may not get what all the slagging is about if you hadn't heard their past works. But for those of you who are familiar with these surgical mask wearing weirdos, Visitations is just another routine check-up.