Clutch - Clutch

Advantages: Several tools in a compact package
Disadvantages: Fiddly, poor quality knife and cutter - pliers pinch skin.

...I was given a black Gerber Clutch multi tool for Christmas about a year ago. The tool contains a knife, nail file, bottle opener/flat screwdriver, 'cross-head' screwdriver, tweezers and a pointy type blade. The whole tool folds open to become a pair of pliers/cutters. There is a key-ring on one end. The tool is quite light and compact, although I was always conscious of its presence in my pocket. I carried the tool for most of last year, finding it useful on several occasions. Attaching keys to it hampered its use, so I took them off right at the start. Now to the various tools: Knife - This is a strong blade of about 4 cm useable length. Unfortunately it does not stay sharp very long even with light use such as sharpening pencils and cutting paper. It does however hone back to a sharp edge quickly. Nail File... Read review

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Advantages: Loud, hard rock
Disadvantages: A little unvarying

...I didn't know much about Clutch before buying this. This is the first of their albums I?ve heard and it?s good in a straightforward kind of way. It?s loud but blues-based and very southern boogie influenced: Lyn-ryrd Skynyrd meet Motorhead by way of Queens of the Stone Age / Kyuss. Fans of the band, apparently previously famed for their hard stoner rock, claim on the internet that the new album never really gets going and lacks power; bad news for them but probably better news for anyone who likes gritty rock fuelled blues. Musically, it?s got tight, driving drums, big bass lines and some great stoner rock riffs, with macho tuneful vocals. Lyrically, it?s interesting; Clutch seem to have a reputation for their lyrics, which cover everything from driving across to the States to imagining God meeting the devil. ?You can?t stop progress... Read review

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Advantages: A good mix of funk, classic rock, straightforward metal and rock styles
Disadvantages: So catchy that some of the songs go round your head for days

...It's not very often that I can own an album for a year and feel compelled to play it from start to finish every time I listen to it. in fact, thanks to my five disc changer, this album is rarely out of my CD player. The overiding factor in Clutch's cult-like following is a trade-off between the original, attention grabbing and often downright oddball vocal stylings of Neil Fallon and the unstoppable riff-machine that is Tim Sult, combined with an unparalelled, story telling style of lyric-writing that has been with them since the beginning. Blast Tyrant takes this to the next level, with just as much cudos being owed to the bass and drums as to the guitars and vocals, combining bass-lines that wouldn't sound out of place on a Funkadelic album, and rhythms that inject so much groove into the album it hurts, making this a much more... Read review

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