| Item no. | 430932 |
|---|---|
| Title | From Beale Street to Oblivion |
| Musical Genre | Stoner Rock |
| Product topic | Bands |
| Band | Clutch |
| Release date | 3/16/07 |
| Product type | CD |
|---|---|
| Media - Format 1-3 | CD |
CD 1
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1.You can't stop progress
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2.Power Player
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3.The devil & me
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4.White's ferry
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5.Child of the city
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6.Electric worry
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7.One eye$
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8.Rapture Of Riddley Walker
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9.When vegans attack
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10.Opossum minister
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11.Black umbrella
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12.Mr. Shiny cadillackness
by Benedikt Niederschmid (04.04.2007) The flyer for "From Beale Street to oblivion" praises the album as the re-invention of the wheel. Doubts are appropriate and justifiable. Of course, that doesn't exclude that the seventh album of the Americans is a remarkable, if not excellent album. Still, Clutch doesn't re-invent anything, their approach is a rather retrospective one citing everything there has been in the Desert Rock circus. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, as well as Kyuss and Monster Magnet are the sources of inspiration for the band around singer Neil Fallon. Still, this is not simple copying, Clutch rather manage to import the slightly dusted sounds into the presence. And the result is great: "From Beale Street to oblivion" is a heavy rocking and greatly grooving Retro Rock album for which even the attribute dust dry would sound too humid. Clutch has been around for 16 years now, the wheel hasn't been reinvented, yet, but they made it round at least.