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Even if it's a little less lively, it's still pretty typical Clutch: always heavy, always solid, and ideal background music for driving a semi-truck through a swamp.
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Their most streamlined record in years, Strange Cousins From the West marks a return to the band’s more robust sound of six years ago.
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While the harsher edges of their previous efforts have been sanded off long ago, frontman Neil Fallon still has a bucketload of fire and brimstone left in his belly and no-one does the possessed preacher man schtick quite like him.
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Alternative PressIt's one of their strongest albums, which is saying a lot for a band who've been workhorses for the past two decades. [Aug 2009, p.106]
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Positive: 16 out of 18
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Feb 2, 2012
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DanF.Aug 3, 2009Just saw them play this album at the HOB. Clutch rules in my book. This album is just as good as the 8+ others.
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Mar 20, 2013