Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
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Features Disc of the day
Nebula
Dos E.P.’s
(Sweet Nothing, 2002)
Some supercharged stoner rock history fuh yah
Nebula's 2001 album, Charged, was the possible pinnacle of stoner rock. Like some cool plan hatched in the 1973 weed fug of a US high school rec room, Charged had one aim. To rock, but, like, really well? Feeding such classic fuzz-blues influences as Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, early Sabbath, and Mudhoney through every single effects pedal in the shop, the end result was a riff-dealing, chrome dude of minimalist intent, looking for something to do, finding it, doing it and then doing it again. Louder. Such was the gimlet-eyed glaucoma focus of Charged, it made smart sense for Eddie Glass, Ruben Romano and Mark Abshire to return to their early EPs and show us exactly how this clarity of blare began, following the trio's respective departures from California hair-surf collective Fu Manchu. Rough-edged, preoccupied with sunbursts and monsters, the EPs served as a necessary stepping-stone to glory, a band honing their wailing slug-rocket sound into something grand and oily. Rather than present them as-were, the boys shuffled and supercharged these old tracks, adding groovier keyboard lines and bluesier vocals, turning tracks like the screaming drag-strip space-trip of Full Throttle (from the Meteor City EP) into brain-amped robot monsters. Like history, but cooler. "What is the Nebula goal?" said singer/guitarist Eddie Glass when I spoke to them in 2002, "To be loud, but not too loud. If it feels good, it's good." As a stop-gap blast of speeding bong squall Dos E.P.'s does just that. Get it. Got it? Feel good? Good.
Andrew Male
Posted by Ross_Bennett at 6:00 AM GMT 15/05/2009
Further Listening
Nebula - Charged(Sweet Nothing, 2001)
Fu Manchu – In Search Of… (Mammoth, 1996)
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