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Kyuss: Sky Valley (Elektra)

Neil Perry, Vox, August 1994

HAILING FROM THE golf-crazed, blue-collar Californian oasis of Palm Springs, the almost surreally heavy Kyuss apparently honed their ferociously stoned metallic vibe with "generator parties", in which they gathered around a fire out in the desert, cranking the amps under the vast night sky.

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