Psychic Warfare

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!

Some hard rock, I often like to listen to. This gave me some vibes like Volbeat and FFDP. Cool album

Stoner rock, hard rock, blues rock. Me ha gustado. Vinilo, va.

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.

Right up my street. Straight into my frequent rotation and now planning a deep dive into Clutch’s discography.

For me Clutch is a band who has flown under the radar for me. Recently I've heard a few of their bigger hits, but hadn't listened to a whole album yet. This was a fantastic record, I definitely will listen to it again!

I had heard if Clutch and listened to a tracks before... But holy crap this kicked butt. Cross between southern rock and heavy metal, which shouldn't work. But it DOES. Will definitely check out more of these guys. Top tracks: "X-Ray Visions", "Firebirds!", "Sucker for the Witch", "Noble Savage", "Behold the Colossus", "Decapitation Blues"

Banger

Some energetic goofy shit to have a good time, pretty much impossible to hate. Like a hard rock album from the 70s that slipped through the time space continuum and ended up in the year 2015.

Stoner rock, hard rock, blues rock. Me ha gustado. Vinilo, va.

Knew a few Clutch songs from a friend, great killer riffs, but man are the vocals a bit cheesy at times. Fun listen still.

Southern stoner rock. Yeah, not bad. Some catchy tunes and riffs, with a timeless blues formula hiding underneath. Not so sure about the performative act of that lead singer in the studio version of those songs, -- close to overkill at times -- but the man's still got the necessary oomph and vocal chops for this type of music, and I imagine he's an awesome frontman on stage. There are also some very striking, memorable lyrics once in a while. Nothing too deep, but fun or witty stuffy on some tracks. With music like this, using a decades-old rock grammar, it's always tempting to play the comparison game. One could for instance argue that Clutch feels like a far glossier version of Osees -- when John Dwyer's act merely rocks instead of experimenting. Or they're like good ole Black Sabbath ordering a fast-food meal (are bats on the menu?), obviously served with the mandatory pint of blood. Or they could be a less subtle and less sinuous version of Queens Of The Stone Age, preferring expressways to small dirt roads in the middle of the desert. Unless they're some harder-sounding (yet also more streamlined) version of Blue Öyster Cult -- with whom they also share some sci-fi topics at times. Take your pick. Even the sub-Red Hot Chili Peppers funk riffing on the verse of "A Quick Death In Texas" doesn't sound so bad after all -- and the song's chorus slaps enough for my needs in the overall genre, just as the ones of "X-Ray Visions", "Firebirds" and "A Sucker For The Witch" do. Are we dealing with essential album material, though? Well... Not for me, not really. You're sort of losing the momentum after the raucous start, with a couple of compositions that might be a little too predictable. And in 2015, this record comes off as decidedly derivative, as proficient as the band is. Like, Clutch are for hard rock / stoner rock what The Black Keys are for classic rock / rhythm'n'blues -- i.e. some sort of quality retro act, yet also one not the least interested in pushing the envelope artistically-speaking. But not every good band in the world needs to do that, I guess. The menu is at least a notch above the meat-and-potatoes routine in that style, which is probably harder to pull off than most people imagine. So the user who suggested this LP still has my blessing. Clutch won't necessarily win a battle of the minds with their *Psychic Warfare*, but they can surely kick your ass with their bag of hard rock riffs. And that's gotta count for something. 8.5/5 for the purposes of this list dedicated to essential albums. 5/10 for more general purposes (5 + 3.5/5) ---- Number of albums from the original list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 465 Albums from the original list I *might* include in mine later on: 288 Albums from the original list I won't include in mine: 336 ---- Number of albums from the users list I find relevant enough to be mandatory listens: 91 Albums from the users list I *might* select for mine later on: 112 Albums from the users list I won't select for mine: 230 (including this one) --- Hey Émile, j'ai répondu sous Demon Days ET ta sélection pour la users list ! 🙂

Boring

At its best this album reminds me a bit of Electric Six or Cage the Elephant. The rest is sort of a dull edgy take at hard rock or like Metalcore for babies

Yeah I like Motörhead too

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

It's quite good, but not really my style anymore

Ford F150 music

I have a friend who is a huge fan of these guys. I’ve tried to get into them. I do enjoy their records when I put them on. I just don’t find myself reaching for them.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: X-ray visions, Our lady of electric light

It's alright, but not very memorable.

If possible, I would give it 3,5.

Honestly, better than I would have anticipated

Psychic Warfare doesn't fuck around, just gets to the point of straight-line hard rock, relatively few frills though some decent efforts to mix it up and pronounce the Southern element to it. Our Lady of Electric Light is a cool bluesy ballad in that vein but otherwise it's pretty loud and in your face, not outstanding but an easy 3 for radio-like listenability.

I haven't listened to CLUTCH in many years, not much has changed from them. 3/5

Not only hard rock cafe, but weird throwback cargo cult hard rock cafe. I won't pretend to be completely above it, it's fun enough, but there's basically zero chance I'd listen to this band or album on my own—if I'm in the mood for cheese rock, I'm probably going to reach for the original music that these guys are aping.

Nice hard roxk

Solid and enjoyable album. It's nothing that new or inventive, but I still like it

I think this is competently made enough, there's nothing about it that I really find objectionable, but it just didn't resonate with me 3/5

Run of the mill hard rock album. Solid music but nothing really special here. Wasn't a big fan of the vocals.

Not my kind of music but I didn’t find it too much of a chore.

I'm a little befuddled by this album. It sounds... fine? But I don't understand what makes this album, and Clutch in general "good," but similar modern musical artists going after this sound seem to get constant ridicule. Not that they don't deserve it, but I genuinely don't hear how this is any different. Fun in Guitar Hero? Maybe, but brain-numblingly predictable as an album.

Boring

45 years prior to this recording there was a band from Birmingham (that's not in Alabama) that recorded an album that many define as the birth of Heavy Metal. 10 years later there was a band from Barnsley (that's not in Kentucky) that along with many many others kept the fire burning. This recording in no way seeks to build on anything that came before which leads me to wonder whether this band's fans have ever heard of Black Sabbath and Saxon? Only joking of course- I love this genre but wonder if everything that can be said has been said?

Blues based rock and roll of the stoner variety. Pretty meh.