Heavy Deavy Skull Lover is the fourth album by American psychedelic rock band the Warlocks.

[1] The album was recorded as a stripped down four-piece, in departure from the octet, dual drummer formation of previous releases.

Describing the album's sound and mood, Pitchfork Media wrote: "The end goal here is the Cure: Live at Pompeii – lo-fi dirges heavy on slow-motion distortion, but with Hecksher's usual stoned-out sighs replaced by more pronounced, mopey affectations.

That the bookend tracks both feature the word 'death' in the title offers some indication of the kind of mood he's in, and the pervasively dreary mood makes it hard to tell where the pained opener 'The Valley of Death' ends and the quicksand-slow descent of 'Moving Mountains' begins.

While not containing the obvious singles of Phoenix, the album that ultimately lifted them into the spotlight of their own accord rather than via associations with co-conspirators, Heavy Deavy Skull Lover is by far their most ambitious, sprawling and intensely defiant collection of sounds [...] this is the 21st Century psychedelic sound of the West Coast in all its glory.