The Ed Mitchell Clinic is the first album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by the Tucson

Tucson, Arizona

Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...

-based indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 trio Mostly Bears

Mostly Bears

Mostly Bears are an experimental rock group from Tucson, Arizona. Their music is a difficult to categorize fusion between alternative, progressive and newer indie rock, like "Radiohead circa 1996 getting in a gang-fight with Arcade Fire."...

, having been released by Funzalo Records in 2008. The title of the album references the former British television personality Ed Mitchell

Ed Mitchell

Ed Mitchell is a UK former television presenter, business journalist and news reader, best known for his work with ITN.Educated at Worthing High School and Durham University, he also worked for Reuters, the BBC, Channel Four, European Business Channel, Asia Business News, European Business News,...

, and presumably the rehabilitation clinic

Priory Group

The Priory Group is an independent provider of mental health care facilities in the United Kingdom. They also manage schools, some for students with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism...

 that he attended in order to again work at Independent Television News.

Production

During development and recording of the album, the band were allowed to experiment and practise on many various instruments, such as the glockenspiel

Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...

, the gu-zheng

Guzheng

The guzheng or "gu zheng", also called zheng is a Chinese plucked zither. It has 18-23 or more strings and movable bridges....

 and the Omnichord

Omnichord

The Omnichord is an electronic musical instrument, introduced in 1981 and manufactured by the Suzuki Musical Instrument Corporation. It typically features a touch plate, and buttons for major, minor, and diminished chords...

. The experimentation also branched off into generally non-musical objects. An example can be heard on the song Airports, where the percussion includes implementation of a bathroom sink. According to the members, they enjoyed recording in the studio bathroom because of the "natural reverberation

Reverberation

Reverberation is the persistence of sound in a particular space after the original sound is removed. A reverberation, or reverb, is created when a sound is produced in an enclosed space causing a large number of echoes to build up and then slowly decay as the sound is absorbed by the walls and air...

" that occurred when playing.