Clutch

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A new CLUTCH e-card, containing samples of the new tracks "Burning Beard", "Mice & Gods" and "10,0011,10101", can be accessed at this location:
www.hyfntrak.com/clutch2/fromafriend/

The songs come off CLUTCH's upcoming studio album, "Robot Hive / Exodus", due June 21 via DRT Entertainment.

"Robot Hive / Exodus" was produced by J. Robbins (JAWBOX, THE DISMEMBERMENT PLAN) at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, NY, and was mixed at Water Music in Hoboken, NJ.

"Robot Hive / Exodus" track listing:

01. Pulaski Skyway
02. Burning Beard
03. Land Of Pleasant Living
04. Gravel Road
05. Matador
06. Mice & Gods
07. Gullah
08. 10,0011,10101
09. Never Be Moved
10. Small Upsetters

The follow-up to the acclaimed "Blast Tyrant", "Robot Hive / Exodus" will be supported with an appearance at the upcoming Sounds of the Underground tour, which CLUTCH are co-headlining along with LAMB OF GOD. The tour begins June 25 in Lowell, MA, and will cross the entire country through the first week of August.

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June 21, 2005

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In 2001, The New York Times described Clutch as “a perfect turn-of-the-century rock band.” They obviously had it wrong ­ unless they were talking about the turn of the next century. Some people say if you look into the past you can see the future, but don’t try it with Clutch (though you might hear them mentioned again on ESPN Sportscenter during the Stanley Cup playoffs). Right when you think you have them figured out, Clutch surprises you, like the band covering blues legend Howlin’ Wolf’s “Who’s Been Talking?” on their new record ROBOT HIVE/EXODUS.

ROBOT HIVE/EXODUS contains 14 tracks of hard, rhythmic rock and roll. The band “reigned in the bits and created the record in a more analog approach,” says singer Neil Fallon. The result is a record saturated with a “presence” unlike any previous Clutch record. The band also elaborated its trademark poetic style: “Lyrically, the record picks up where Blast Tyrant left off and resolves in old blues.” One important new musical feature of the record is the work of keyboard player Mick Schauer in his first extensive studio work with the band; Mick started touring with Clutch after Blast Tyrant was released in 2004. In their words, “He’s on the record.” The record’s blues atmosphere gives a new meaning to “moonshine.” Tracks such as “Gravel Road” and “Gullah” are a potent brew of blues and rock, while other songs such as “Mice and Gods” distill the band’s power into pure rock form.

ROBOT HIVE/EXODUS is the seventh studio record from Clutch. The band was formed nearly 15 years ago in Germantown, Maryland. Since then they have released two live records, several EPs’ and been featured on film soundtracks, video games, and dozens of compilation albums. Throw in about two thousand concerts, shake, and serve: Clutch is known the world over as America’s hardest working and hardest touring rock band: ROBOT HIVE/EXODUS is the witness and the proof.

ROBOT HIVE/EXODUS was recorded at Bearsville Studios in Woodstock, N.Y. (where other acts such as Dave Matthews, Phish, and R.E.M. have recorded). It was mixed at Water Music in Hoboken, N.J. where the band recorded much of their last record, Blast Tyrant (DRT 2004).

Clutch added several high-profile TV appearances to their busy touring schedule in 2004, and their music was featured repeatedly on Bam Margera’s hit MTV show “Viva La Bam!” Bam, who directed the video for “The Mob Goes Wild” from the acclaimed Blast Tyrant CD (the video is featured on the DVD of the show’s first season), invited Clutch back to perform a live set, portions of which were broadcast during an episode on the show’s fourth season in the Spring of 2005.

Clutch is:
Dan Maines ­ Bass
Tim Sult ­ Guitar
Jean-Paul Gaster ­ Drums
Neil Fallon ­ Vocals, Guitar
Mick Schauer ­ All Keys

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Burning Beard

www.drt-entertainment.com/videos/clutch/clutch.mov

Every day I wake up we drink a lot of coffee and watch the CNN
Every day I wake up to a bowl of clover honey and let the locusts fly in.
Lobsterbacks attack the town again
Wrap all my things in aluminum
Beams of darkness streak across the sky
Pink rays from the ancient satellite

Every time I look out my window same three dogs looking back at me.
Every time I open my windows cranes fly in to terrorize me.
The power of the Holy Ghost
The power of the Holy Ghost

Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calve

Swan diving off the tongues of crippled giants
International Business Machine
Choking on bits of barley bread crumbs
Oh this burning beard I have come undone.
It’s just as I’ve feared. I have, I have come undone.

Bugger dumb the last of academe.
Okkam’s razor makes the cutting clean.
Shaven like a banker, lilac vegetal.
Break the glass ceiling and golden parachute on down.
The power of the Holy Ghost comes to town.

Shadow of the New Praetorian
Tipping cows in fields Elysian
Saturnalia for all you have
The seven habits of the highly infected calve.