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ClutchStrange Cousins from the West Release Date: 2009 07 14 Label: Weathermaker Music Rating: ![]() |
The first Clutch studio release in over two years, Strange Cousins from the West is their ninth studio effort; their second recorded with producer J. Robbins at his Magpie Cage Studio in Baltimore, MD; and their first original studio release on their self-owned label, Weathermaker Music. If you're familiar with Clutch at this point in the band's career (after almost 20 years), there aren't too many surprises; it's another album filled with greasy, bluesy, down-home stoner rock. One slight variation this time around is that keyboardist Mick Schauer isn't on board -- bassist Dan Maines, drummer Jean-Paul Gaster, guitarist Tim Sult, and vocalist/guitarist Neil Fallon recorded as a four-piece -- and the lack of a Hammond organ and the stripped-down production give the album a rawer, more organic, and more spatial feel. This leaves more room for the beefy bass tone and delirious lyrics ("Anthrax, ham radio...and liquor!") to shine, but because the grooves are a touch slower and more restrained, Strange Cousins from the West is a step down from their last three albums, From Beale Street to Oblivion, Robot Hive: Exodus, and Blast Tyrant. 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. Jason Lymangrover, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Motherless Child | Clutch [1] | 4:15 |
| 2 | Struck Down | Clutch [1] | 4:22 |
| 3 | 50,000 Unstoppable Watts | Clutch [1] | 3:47 |
| 4 | Abraham Lincoln | Clutch [1] | 5:58 |
| 5 | Minotaur | Clutch [1] | 4:51 |
| 6 | Amazing Kreskin | Clutch [1] | 4:36 |
| 7 | Witchdoctor | Clutch [1] | 4:10 |
| 8 | Let a Poor Man Be | Clutch [1] | 5:30 |
| 9 | Freakonomics | Clutch [1] | 3:21 |
| 10 | Algo Ha Cambiado | Napolitano | 4:08 |
| 11 | Sleestak Lightning | Clutch [1] | 3:46 |
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