![]() ![]() At 8 minutes long it gives you time to really immerse yourself into the rhythms. ![]() Rama (The Prophecy)’ picks up the pace in the time honoured Hawkwind manner, driven along by guitar, bass and drums with suitable guitar solos and keyboards weaving in and out. You do need to be paying attention, as next up is ‘They Are So Easily Distracted’, another 10 minute opus that meanders along with piano, saxophone and synthesisers conjuring up magical sounds that are really enjoyable with a meaningful spoken finish. Third track ‘Aldous Huxley’ takes us on a journey of exploration and whilst the musical backdrop is reassuring, the spoken word parts are deeper in content. It finishes with the first of several spoken word segments which add a disturbed sense of unbalance to the album, and that is meant in a positive complimentary way! Second track ‘The End’ is a more recognisable Hawkwind sound, a driving guitar riff and drums with superb overlays of synthesisers giving occasional echos of ‘Urban Guerrilla’ and other Hawkwind favourites. ![]() At 10 minutes long it is not what you might consider an easily accessible opening track either! Sounding in places more like Jean Michel Jarre than ‘Brainstorm’, its a dreamy theme setting piece, mystical and mesmerising in equal parts. I have attempted to avoid too much detail on the individual tracks during this review, as that will make it more interesting for you when you first listen to it and then hopefully you will want to immediately listen to it again!įirst and title track ‘The Future Never Waits’ is a suitably ambitious opening. However, you would do that at your peril, this album rewards repeated listening, and will give you a chance to simply sit back, relax and disappear into your own mind as the music takes you on whatever journey you want to let it. It contains wonderful sounds, but for new listeners it may end up being more of a curiosity or something to avoid. If this were the 1970’s, we might be declaring this album a masterpiece, if it was given the time to be absorbed, but as we are now in the ‘immediate and disposable’ society this album stands apart as a different experience. Rather than sit on their laurels and dial some new ‘sounds like Hawkwind doing Hawkwind’ music in, the band have recorded a superb composition to challenge and immerse their fans in a virtual soundscape. The Space Lords have been around for well over 50 years now, and this is their 35th studio album, plus of course numerous live albums and compilations. ![]()
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