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Merge

Clean

Getaway Reissue

2001’s Getaway maybe best illustrates whatever mercurial, inexplicable musical power animates The Clean. After the band’s initial rush of activity between 1978 and 1982, the trio lay dormant until the end of the ’80s, when a string of reunion shows inspired the Kilgours and Scott to start recording again. After three well-received albums in the first half of the nineties—1990’s Vehicle, 1994’s Modern Rock, and 1996’s Unknown Country—The Clean disappeared again until the end of the decade, when another tour inspired another record. Speed and spontaneity defined Getaway. Robert says, “I remember writing ‘Silence or Something Else’ while the others went for a long walk. It was done by the time they got back. I probably would have gone for a straighter version, but I still like it.” David remembers, “Hamish wrote the instrumental ‘Jala’ in about five minutes in a motel outside of Turangi.” At one point in the process, Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley were visiting from America, and they ended up on the record too. A live version of the pulsing, soaring Stars—along with a couple of other Getaway songs and Clean classics like Fish, Side On, Quickstep, and Point That Thing Somewhere Else—appear on the rare 2003 album Syd’s Pink Wiring System. That record is included with the Getaway reissue, along with the more experimental, pianodriven EP Slush Fund, from the same era. These bonus tracks reinforce the idea of the Getaway-era Clean as especially plugged in, generating inspired and beautiful music almost on instinct.

Tracklist

• 1Stars
  2Jala
  3Crazy
  4Golden Crown
  5Cell Block No. 5
  6E Motel
  7Twilight Agency
  8Poor Boy
  9Silence or Something Else
  10Alpine Madness
  11Circle Canyon
  12Aho
  13Holdin' On
  14Reprise 1, 2, 3, & 4
  15Complications

  Disc 2
  1Rollo
  2Slush Fund
  3Filling a Hole
  4Caveman
  5Point That Thing Somewhere Else
  6Wipe Me I'm Lucky
  7Fish
  8Quickstep
  9Fish
  10I Wait Around
  11Hold On to the Rail
  12At the Bottom
  13Point That Thing Somewhere Else
  14Do Your Thing
  15Quickstep
  16Crazy
  17Side On
  18Stars
  19Jala