Impetus - Clutch

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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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: Totally rocking and entertaining!
Disadvantages: Might be a bit off the wall for some, shall we say 'The boring'

...Clutch are somewhat like the living reincarnation of Led Zeppelin - but much, much heavier - and much, much, much more Texan (Although they're not actually from Texas). Not an adjective often used to describe a band I know, but trust me - it fits. Clutch are a four piece rock band comprised of man mountain Tim Sult on guitar, Dan Maines on bass and Jean Paul Gaster on drums. Providing shouts, growls, yells, roars and just about anything a vocal chord or two can reasonably be expected to do is Neil Fallon, who looks like a balding, demonic Ben Folds. Yikes! If you take a wide view of music then you'd call Clutch rock but if you want a more precise definition as to whether they're Grunge, Hard Rock etc then I'm afraid I'm going to have to admit defeat, invent a new genre and call them 'Very Rock'. They make talent like Busted look... Read review

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