Psychic Warfare is the eleventh studio album by the band Clutch, It was released on October 2, 2015, through the band's own label Weathermaker Music.
Psychic Warfare debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and No. 11 on Billboard 200-- selling 26,000 copies in the first week. This is the best chart-ranking achieved on both charts by the band as well as their best weekly sales.
Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland. Since its formation in 1991, the band lineup has included Tim Sult (lead guitar), Dan Maines (bass), Jean-Paul Gaster (drums), and Neil Fallon (vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards). Since 2008, the band has been signed to their own record label, Weathermaker Music.
Clutch is one of the pioneers of stoner rock.
Psychic Warfare is a fun stone/hard rock album by Clutch. The music is muscle rock with a lot of drive. The lyrics are not that serious. Great car music.
Solid hard rock LP that never once let off the gas. Doesn’t really reinvent the wheel any but that’s not what I was looking for out of this LP, just some good riffage and energy.
Whoa - this is a surprise. This sounded like it was made well before 2015. Good old fashioned hard southern rock here that is a ton of fun to listen to!
The band introductions by zodiac sign in "X-Ray Visions" reminded me of "Float On" by The Floaters for some mad reason. The propulsive rock of "Sucker for the Witch" proved excitingly relatable for both our shared Catholic upbringing and obsession with witches.
PSYCHIC WARFARE is some terrific rock that I'm glad to discover is alive and well!
This was fun. I don't think they are doing anything really original or required listening, but it's fun.
My personal rating: 3/5
My rating relative to the list: 4/5
Should this have been included on the original list? No.
Gen Xrs of pretty much my exact vintage. I liked the goofy sci fi/horror sensibility - Wiki cites Philip K Dick, but I sense equal parts Stephen King. Some lyrical artfulness is sacrificed in service of the storytelling I think. But I give it a pass. It was fun and funny, and gets an extra point for being far from the same old thing despite hewing to a pretty well worn genre of hard rcok.
It seems like modern rock music struggles to get back to that arena rocking sound that ruled the 70s and 80s. This album has all the makings of a good rock album but to me it just doesn’t land like some of the classics. It’s not a bad album but it feels like it’s trying harder to be a cool rock album rather than the music actually being cool. It’s not bad but it just doesn’t have the replay flair that older rock has. 6.1/10
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