{"id":7296,"date":"2015-10-05T13:18:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T13:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-clutch-psychic-warfare\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T21:20:48","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:20:48","slug":"album-review-clutch-psychic-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-clutch-psychic-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review:\u00a0Clutch –\u00a0Psychic Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"image\"When you’ve been playing in the same band since high school with the same people and you’ve already got ten albums under your belt, I think it’s fair to assume that you probably know where you’re at and what you’re doing, and boy, do Clutch<\/b> know what they’re doing? <\/p>\n

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There’s absolutely no fucking about on this record; no widdly widdly soloing, no bloated arrangements, no crowd-pleasing ballads, just pure bad ass rock, superbly executed with tight rhythms, hard hitting riffs and top drawer vocals. <\/p>\n

‘The Affidavit\u2019<\/i> opens with ambient noise recorded on Neil Fallon’s iPhone in a hotel lobby, as he takes the part of a private investigator interviewing the character from first track \u2018X-Ray Visions\u2019<\/i>, a straight ahead uptempo hard-hitting rocker, which segues into the equally intense ‘Firebirds’<\/i>. There\u2019s plenty more in the same vein on \u2018Sucker for the Witch\u2019<\/i> and \u2018Decapitation Blues\u2019<\/i>, which are both hard and hooky. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It’s not all hell-bent for leather mind, \u2018A Quick Death in Texas\u2019<\/i> has got serious groove and well worked riffs, while ‘Your Love is Incarceration\u2019<\/i> is equally funky. In fact, there’s actually quite a lot of variety on ‘Psychic Warfare’<\/i>, what with the downbeat movie soundtrack drama of ‘Our Lady of Electric Light\u2019<\/i>, the vaguely ridiculous and totally overblown \u2018Behold the Colossus\u2019<\/i> and the sinister storytelling of the hard grinding rocker ‘Son of Virginia’<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Although in my humble opinion, it’s hard to top the super-frenetic hard-assed rocker ‘Noble Savage\u2019<\/i>, which is an instant classic and sure to be a live favourite, there’s really not a duff track or a dull moment on this record; even the filler is killer. <\/p>\n

4.5\/5<\/p>\n

‘Psychic Warfare’<\/em> by Clutch<\/strong> is out now on Weathermaker Records<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Clutch<\/strong> links: Website<\/a>|Facebook<\/a>|Twitter <\/a><\/p>\n

Words by Edward Layland (@EdwardLayland<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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