Neil Fallon of Clutch. Photo Credit: David Rippeto

Clutch frontman Neil Fallon recently spoke about the impact of “Earth Rocker” on their forthcoming album, out this fall via Weathermaker Music:

“Well, I guess there are two answers to that because we already finished recording our next record. It is in the process of being mixed right now. And I do recall that when we first started writing I kind of had a bit of a head game going on trying to preoccupy myself with upping the bar, and that only kind of created problems because that’s just unneeded pressure. Then I realized we never really thought that way when we were making Earth Rocker, so then I just kind of let go — and once I stopped fretting about that, it became a much easier record to write.”

He later added of the new album:

“I think in a lot of ways it is similar to Earth Rocker because we started writing it very quickly after we started touring for Earth Rocker, whereas in the past Strange Cousins from the West was four years before Earth Rocker. So, I think there is a lot of similarities. It may even, as whole, be faster than Earth Rocker. The songs might be more succinct than Earth Rocker. But at this point I have heard it so many times that I can’t make heads or tails or it at this point.”

Read the whole interview here.