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Written and conceived during a period of inner-band turmoil, Clutching at Straws would prove to be {|Fish|}'s swan song, and perhaps {|Marillion|}'s most unheralded masterpiece. Teaming up once again with producer {|Chris Kimsey|}, Clutching at Straws showcases some of the band's most satisfying compositions, including the magnificent Warm Wet Circles and That Time of the Night (The Short Straw). Bookended by Fish's disgust with not only himself, Torch Song, but also with the burgeoning neo-Nazi uprising in Europe, White Russian, the great Scot delivers an inspired condemnation. The commercial pomp and circumstance of Incommunicado also gives way to a self-parodying confessional inspired by Fish's inability to see himself as a bona fide rock star and celebrity (I want to do adverts for American Express cards, talk shows on prime time T.V.). Tour opener Slainte Mhath is simple and elegant, building to its dramatic crescendo only to be upstaged by Sugar Mice -- quite simply, one of Maril