According to Nebula bassist/backing vocalist Tom Davies, the venerable Los Angeles trio have about 17 songs written for their next album in one stage or another of completion. Sounds like plenty, right? To put that to scale, 2019’s Holy Shit (review here) had nine. So that’s at least a full-length and probably an EP’s worth, with some odds and ends left over either for later or the riffy scrapheap. In any case, Davies, founding guitarist/vocalist Eddie Glass and drummer Mike Amster are hoping to record in the next couple months with an eye toward releasing in the Fall.

If the last year taught humanity anything, though, it’s that the best laid plans often… catch the plague? Whatever. Nebula in 2020 were to have taken off on tour with fellow stoner legends Monster Magnet on a US tour that was to begin right around the time everything started locking down. The good news, I suppose, is they had time to write and work on 17 songs in a way they’ve never done before — Glass also became a father for the first time; his and his girlfriend’s baby has a cameo in the ‘Couchlock and Rock’ segment preceding their recent ‘Live in the Mojave Desert’ livestream (review here), and is of course an adorable lump of mini-humanity as babies are at that stage of life — and whenever it surfaces, Holy Shit‘s follow-up will continue the band’s post-reunion shift back into a full-on working group.

And if you didn’t watch it, ‘Live in the Mojave Desert’ is proof-positive of exactly why that’s good news. The trio, set up out in the desert, first sunset, then psychedelic oil projections from Mad Alchemy surrounding, live-album-worthy sound (which is fortunate, since the set will be a live album on Heavy Psych Sounds) and drones flying around capturing the whole thing — the production scale is massive for a livestream — but at the core of it is Nebula kicking ass in classic form. A power trio. Davies and Amster, with absolutely locked in grooves despite not having done a show in however long, while Glass rips out another solo because what the hell the world’s ending anyway. If that’s to be the shape of human dystopia, then at least we know hedonism will outlive us.

Davies, loungin’ in his home studio, took some time out to talk about the process of making the stream — he hadn’t seen the finished product yet when we spoke, and neither had I — as well as writing and recording, life during lockdown in the desert, and more.

Please enjoy:

Nebula Interview with Tom Davies, Feb. 4, 2021

A video of “Let’s Get Lost” was posted as a preview for the full stream that aired this past weekend. You can see that and stream Holy Shit in its entirety both below.

Nebula, “Let’s Get Lost” from Live in the Mojave Desert Vol. 2

Nebula, Holy Shit (2019)

Nebula on Thee Facebooks

Nebula on Instagram

Live in the Mojave Desert tickets at Tixr

Stoned and Dusted Instagram

Stoned and Dusted on Thee Facebooks

Heavy Psych Sounds on Thee Facebooks

Heavy Psych Sounds website

Heavy Psych Sounds on Bandcamp

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