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Clutch Drop New Single, New Company Band EP Forthcoming

After being talked about and teased for months, Clutch have finally released their new single.  Pigtown Blues is backed with an excellent acoustic version of Motherless Child.  It was just released digitally and on 7" picture disc with the artwork you see on the left.

Pigtown Blues is pretty much what you expect from Clutch at this point in their career; dirty, bluesy and funky goodness.  It may not have the same explosive effect an undisputed champ like Electric Worry has, but it definitely whets the appetite while waiting for Maryland's finest to finally get out a new album.  Three years and counting is a long time since Strange Cousins From The West, and some of us are getting a little impatient.

Anyway, the good folks at Soda Shop Records took the new record for a spin and gave us a stream:



In other Clutch-related news, side project (of most band members) The Company Band are also set to release some new music.  Pros And Cons is out July 31, and features five new tracks (and some of the most amazing artwork I've seen in a long time). It's their second EP, and follows their tasty self-titled debut album from 2009.  Tracklist looks like this:

1. House Of Capricorn
2. Black Light Fever
3. Kill Screen
4. Loc Nar
5. El Dorado

No samples yet, but any chance to blast Zombie Barricades is fine by me.

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