Peel Sessions

AMG Review of Peel Sessions

Greg Prato
All Music Guide

Although they have never broken out beyond the rock underground, Nebula became somewhat favorites of the U.K.'s famed Peel Sessions radio show, having performed two live-in-the-studio sets between 2002 and 2004 (as well as an additional Radio 1 Rock Show appearance). And wouldn't you know it, all three have been documented several years later, in the form of 2008's Peel Sessions. Nebula have always been one of stoner rock's most loud and proud bands, but while many groups of the genre seem content jamming the night away through a thick fog of pot fumes, these lads do attempt to pen songs that have honest to goodness melodies and some sort of song structure, cases in point being such standouts as "Carpe Diem" and "Ways to Venus." But that said, like most stoner rockers, Nebula are also prone to veering off into jam territory from time to time, as evidenced here by a nearly ten-minute rendition of "Strange Human."