''Heavy Psych'' is the fifth studio album by
stoner rock
Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Kyuss and Sleep. ...
band
Nebula
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.
It was released in 2009 via
Tee Pee Records
Tee Pee Records is an American independent rock music record label in New York City, prominent for releasing music by Sleep, Witch, Graveyard, Earthless, High on Fire and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It has housed many stoner rock bands.
Rost ...
. Promo copies were released to coincide with a tour that began on August 12, 2008. The album was reissued in 2022 by the band's current label Heavy Psych Sounds Records.
Critical reception
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PopMatters
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'' wrote that "''Heavy Psych'' feels both weighted by history and infinitely lighter and spryer than the turgid slop that all too often passes for hard rock these days."
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The Village Voice
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'' called it "basically their familiar, green-fingered grooves filtered through a little Hawkwind cosmic glop."
The ''
Chicago Reader
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'' wrote: "The inspiration they obviously don't care to waste on their album titles gets channeled instead into period-perfect early-70s lazy-pothead comfy-chair boogie and ecstatic explosions of flanged-out guitar designed to turn your skull inside out through your headphones."
Track listing
Personnel
*
Eddie Glass
Eddie Glass (born December 19, 1970) is an American rock musician best known for his work with punk band Olivelawn and stoner rock bands Nebula and Fu Manchu. Nebula has been Glass' primary musical group since 1997, when he and drummer Ruben Ro ...
– guitar, vocals, keyboards
*
Rob Oswald
Robert Oswald (born 1964 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American drummer. Oswald is best known as the former drummer for Karma to Burn. He has previously been a member of various bands including Year Long Disaster, Mondo Generator, Nebula, B ...
– drums, percussion
*Tom Davies – bass, vocals
References
External links
*Nebula'
Official Website
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Nebula (band) EPs
2009 EPs
Tee Pee Records albums