Clutch – “Full Fathom Five: Audio Field Recordings 2007-2008” [LIVE]

Clutch take a dirty rock vibe into their meanderings and deliver a live album that is quite entertaining in its ability to rock out. The band is quite proficient in delivering their thoughts to the world in their sort of wacky form as this is the way it comes across on their live work here. We can see them delving into a groove that has an unmistakably potent and made their own. They try to throw in enough curves to make the music they play consistently compelling and are partially successful in doing so.

This is due to the fun focus they try to interlace within their songs that makes them seem addictive to some extent and it gives them a positive overview towards their music. It also makes them seem more upbeat than they would be otherwise as we can sense that Clutch genuinely enjoy performing the music they’ve set out to play. This is a great thing for rock music, to see a band that enjoys what they do so much and performs to their heart’s content. “Child of the City” holds its own as a song that it seems the outfit really like to play.

The slight inability to bring out extraordinary moments in the songs makes them not as good as they could be and this goes to show there is still a lot of room for improvement with the manners they are playing. The raw types of thoughts the band attempt to evoke are great towards sprucing up their sounds and give them a new dimension in terms of how they want to present themselves as an outfit as well.

There’s a need to bring about the most entertaining fashions possible in their ideas and this goes to further the nature of the music being brought about greatly as it enhances their personality. I just wish they would try to push the ideas further into the realms of ingenuity. As this stands, Full Fathom Five is a solid record, but nothing spectacular.  [ END ]

Track Listing:

01. The Dragonfly
02. Child of the City
03. The Devil & Me
04. Texan Book of the Dead
05. Animal Farm
06. The Mob Goes Wild
07. Cypress Grove
08. The Elephant Riders
09. Ship of Gold
10. The Yeti
11. Promoter (Of Earthbound Causes)
12. 10001110101
13. Mr. Shiny Cadillackness
14. Electric Worry
15. One Eye Dollar

Run Time: 95:00
Release Date: 11.11.2008