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Harmacy
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Studio album by Sebadoh
Released August 20, 1996
Genre Indie rock
Length 50:12
Label Sub Pop (USA)
Domino (UK)
City Slang (Germany)
Fellaheen (Australia)
Producer Wally Gagel, Bryce Goggin, Eric Masunaga, Tim O'Heir
Sebadoh chronology
Bakesale
(1994)
Harmacy
(1996)
The Sebadoh
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars
Robert Christgau A−
Pitchfork Media (8.9/10)
Rolling Stone 4/5 stars

Harmacy is the sixth album by American indie rock band Sebadoh. It was released by Sub Pop in 1996.

It is the second and final Sebadoh album to feature drummer Bob Fay, who replaced founding member Eric Gaffney in 1994.

The album cover features a photograph of a pharmacy in Cashel, Ireland, taken by band member Jason Loewenstein on tour. The missing "P" gave the album its title.

As with its predecessor, Bakesale, the songwriting on Harmacy was handled primarily by Loewenstein and founding member Lou Barlow, with Fay contributing the lone track, "Sforzando!", and the band covering "I Smell a Rat" by American hard rock band The Bags. Their cover was featured on the soundtrack for the 1998 American comedy-thriller film Homegrown.

Like Bakesale, the album was a "(relatively) polished production", and featured pervasive use of electric guitars and longer song structures, marking a clear departure from the band's lo-fi, often acoustic earlier albums like their release, Sebadoh III (1991).

Solo acoustic versions of "On Fire" and "Willing to Wait" were released prior to the album's release, on the 1994 "Rebound" single and the 1995 compilation Rare on Air, Volume 2: KCRW Live, respectively.

Released in the wake of Barlow's Top 40 hit, "Natural One", with his band The Folk Implosion, Harmacy became Sebadoh's first charting album in the U.S., expanding on the success of Bakesale, and yielding the Modern Rock Tracks hit, "Ocean".


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