This is the new album from Hawkwind co-founder Nik Turner. Let me just say up front that there are on-going battles between various Hawkwind alums about various things. I will not weigh in on those discussions at all. The sad fact is that if a band is around long enough, there is a really good chance that it will eventually devolve into that kind of thing. I do have my personal opinions about these particular battles, but those are not for public consumption. Instead, I prefer to focus on the music. The way I look at it is, as a Hawkwind fanatic (which I am) I get more Hawk-music this way. This album sounds a lot like Hawkwind. The interesting thing is, they released a new album this year, too. I will bet that it (along with this album) will wind up in my best of 2017 list. Really, how can you see that as anything other than more great Hawk music at least from the fan perspective?

This review is available in book format (hardcover and paperback) in Music Street Journal: 2017  Volume 6 at  garyhillauthor.com/Music-Street-Journal-2017.

Flute, acoustic guitar and other space elements dance around one another as this cut starts. Vocals join as it coalesces into more of a "song" structure. There are some more purely prog like things in some of the changes here. There is a great dream-like space quality to it. It is a killer melodic trippy piece of space rock magic.