Comments on: CLUTCH – STRANGE COUSINS FROM THE WEST

By: T

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:11:59 +0000

I’m a Marylander and have listened to this band for 14 years. I’m also (usually) of the anything-that-Clutch-puts-out-fucking-rocks-camp. Maybe I was just a dilettante in that regard…

This album surprised me a bit — it came off as a bit flat in sound. Maybe the rip of it that was passed on to me was bad — I’m going to go buy the actual album tonight so I can hear it pump through my stereo as the Clutch-gods intended. Quite perceptive, also about the combo of pre-BT stoner metal and post-BT blues. I really dig the masterful blend.

As far as Pure Rock Fury or any other album goes — see them live; you will be scarred for life in the best possible, Clutchy way, but you won’t be bitching about how shitty their early or later stuff sounds. Sometimes, you just gotta live and not pick nits.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:27:51 +0000

I’ll give it another go, though I’ve pretty much given up on them.

And I’ll agree with the above poster, Pure Rock Fury is its own kind of awful. And while I don’t appreciate the stuff after that, I don’t think it’s *bad*.

It doesn’t get any better than Juggernaut and Walking in the Great Shining Path of Monster Trucks though.

By: brz

brz — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:02:12 +0000

i’m still in the “getting to know” stage, but one thing that was immediately impressive about this album was the packaging – the artwork, design, everything is absolutely incredible! that alone makes it worth buying.

By: SxPxDxCx

SxPxDxCx — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:52:42 +0000

I fall in to a different group I like everything before Pure Rock Fury, and everything after it. PRF is the one clunker in their discography IMHO.