Clutching at Straws (1987)

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Mar 13, 2025

Title: Clutching at Straws
Artist: Marillion
Genre: Progressive Rock
Released: 1987

Tracks:
1 - Hotel Hobbies - 3:35
2 - Warm Wet Circles - 4:25 -

3 - That Time of the Night (The Short Straw) - 6:00
4 - Going Under - 2:47
5 - Just for the Record - 3:09
6 - White Russian - 6:27
7 - Incommunicado - 5:16 -

8 - Torch Song - 4:05
9 - Slàinte Mhath - 4:44
10 - Sugar Mice - 5:46 -

11 - The Last Straw - 5:58

Overview:

Clutching at Straws is the fourth studio album by neo-progressive rock band Marillion, and is a concept album. Released in 1987, it was the last album with lead singer Fish who left the band in 1988. Although commercially not quite as successful as its 1985 predecessor Misplaced Childhood – Clutching at Straws spent 15 weeks on the UK album chart (the shortest chart residency of any of Marillion's first four studio albums) – it still reached number two (the second highest chart placing for a Marillion album) and it is considered to be among the best work of Marillion's "Fish era" by many fans and critics, and also Fish himself, as he has stated in several interviews.

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