Robot Hive/exodus - Clutch

Of all the albums recorded in the 21st Century, Clutch's Robot Hive/Exodus (2005) is possibly one of the only albums that I can listen to all of the way through. Riffmeister Neil Fallon and his gang of bluesy cohorts have created an album of what can only be described as Sheer Groove. The reason why it is so listenable is mainly because no song sounds the same - there are no 10-minute plods through as many blues riffs as they can think of, just mostly sub 5-minute groovefests with well thought-out structures and unusual time signatures usually unheard of in blues-rock. Compared to previous Clutch records, nothing has changed. Fallon still churns out ...