Artist: KYUSS
Album: WELCOME TO SKY VALLEY (CD)

Release date: 1994
EAN/UPS: 75596157124
Media type: CD

Welcome to Sky Valley is the third album released by Kyuss on June 28, 1994.

This was the first album with bassist Scott Reeder, who took the place of Nick Oliveri in 1993 before the album was recorded. It also marks the first time that the bass guitar was used in a more conventional, contrapuntal manner, as opposed to Oliveri's Lemmy-influenced picking style that uses the bass more as a rhythm guitar, sticking to simple major and minor scales, sans the use of modes. This is the final album with drummer Brant Bjork, who left to join Fu Manchu.

There are only three listed tracks (and a fourth hidden one), but there are ten songs. Track one, for instance is actually three different songs.

In concert, the band Tool has covered "Demon Cleaner" a number of times, occasionally getting Kyuss bassist Scott Reeder to play it with them live.

The album marks the watershed in their songwriting prowess, when they moved away from angered, riff-laden songs with an alternative edge to the psychedelic experimentation that has been their enduring legacy to the stoner rock scene.

TRACKLIST:

"Gardenia" (Brant Bjork) – 6:54
"Asteroid (Josh Homme) – 4:48
"Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop" (Josh Homme) – 6:03
"100°" (Josh Homme) – 2:29
"Space Cadet" (Josh Homme/Scott Reeder) – 7:02
"Demon Cleaner" (Josh Homme) – 5:19
"Odyssey" (Josh Homme) – 4:19
"Conan Troutman" (Josh Homme) – 2:11
"N.O." (Mario Lalli/Scott Reeder) – 3:47
"Whitewater" (Brant Bjork/Josh Homme) – 8:58
(contains "Lick Doo" (unlisted "secret" track))

LINE-UP:

John Garcia - Vocals
Josh Homme - Guitar
Scott Reeder - Bass
Brant Bjork - Drums

Lead guitar on "N.O." by Mario Lalli (of Fatso Jetson, SST Records)
Produced by Chris Goss & Kyuss