Clutch at Soundwave 2014, Brisbane
CLUTCH // Psychic Warfare
(Oct 2, Weathermaker Music/MGM)
If you haven’t had the listening pleasure of their previous 10 albums,
it’s not too late to melt your senses to the heavy, hearty, hard and fast,
witty, rhythmic with a dash of funk and punk song skills of this US
troop that just won’t lay down for anything, including the ravages of
time since they formed in the infancy of grunge in 1991. This band is
just so clever, and that reaches fans who pay attention. Singer Neil
Fallon’s imagination has produced this cinematic soundtrack to the
plot of his imagination of gunslingers, energy weapons, paranoid
neurosis, and the occasional three-legged mule.
“I spent a lot of time doting over the lyrics,” says Fallon. “It was fun
because I have a great luxury that I’m a professional liar — that’s
what a storyteller is. Or at least that’s what I try to be. It’s the one
socially acceptable way to completely deceive people, and that’s
what they want. If you sing it with enough conviction, people won’t
question it. I just love that escapism, the fantasy aspect of it. And
fantasy doesn’t necessarily equate to dragons and wizards. It can
be seedy hotel rooms and sketchy hitchhikers.”