Seasons Greetings from Deep Space (CD EP, HAWKSR002CD) – "Christmas Treat"; "Angela Android" [live]; "The Secret Knowledege of Water"; "Ritual Breathing" Hawkwind. Sweet, sweet Hawkwind… Is there a band on the planet which is as at once so synonymous with one place (England, more specifically West London, if you didn’t know), whilst being so totally, gloriously not of this world? I don’t think so… It is, amazingly, Hawkwind’s best studio album in a generation, and, arguably, their best since the mid-1970s.

Area S4 EP: "Alien (I Am)"; "Sputnik Stan" (12" only); "Death Trap"; "Wastelands of Sleep"; "Are You Losing Your Mind?" (EBS, EBCD107, 12" & CD) Hawkwind have released another great album here, demonstrating their willingness to continue to move forward and try new things. The songs could sit nicely within their set list alongside the classics. Maybe the Hawkwind spaceship has taken off in a new direction, to explore new territories and sounds. Long may the journey continue. Give it a listen and join them in these interesting new discoveries. Not highly polished musical precision, no strange time signatures or technically complex dexterity, the MO is (and always has been) about feel and groove and creating an experience. Same as it ever was. The benefits of being together and playing together in the studio rather than using technological communications shines through. From 1970 through to 1975, the group were contracted to Liberty/ UA producing their most commercially successful and critically acclaimed work, five studio albums, the UK top 9 live album Space Ritual and five singles, including the UK top 3 single " Silver Machine". This catalogue is now owned by EMI and is in print. [1]

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The singles and EPs listed here, in the main, are all of those that went on general release in the UK. There are a couple of overseas releases included as they are significant in that their A-side and/or B-side were unavailable in the UK. days ago Slash Ft. Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Announce Australian Dates for ‘The River Is Rising-Rest of the World Tour 2024’ Urban Guerrilla" / "Brainbox Pollution" (United Artists, UP35566, 7", UK#39) Withdrawn after 3 weeks of release. The band’s 35th studio album is an outstanding progression to their varied and celebrated catalogue. T HE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “ Hawkwind’s brand-new studio album The Future Never Waits follows their critically acclaimed 2021 album Somnia and 2022 double live album We Are Looking In On You. The band’s 35th studio album is an outstanding progression to their varied and celebrated catalogue.

Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrateded.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p.135. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.Hawkwind have been imaginative and brave, they should be congratulated and hopefully the fanbase will enjoy the journey of ‘The Future Never Waits’ as much as I have. Go out and listen to it and then listen to it again so you you don’t miss out.

Between 1999 and 2007, the band released both new and archive material through Voiceprint, this catalogue now being out of print. [3]If you’d said to Hawkwind members in their Ladbroke Grove squat that fifty years later they’d be on their 35 thstudio album, they would have thought you’d gone too hard on the hallucinogens. 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. However, the balance comes with the sonic theme of The Future Never Waits that places a strong emphasis on more ambient sounds and brushstrokes which have dominated the first half of the album. It's a bit of a liquorice allsorts as far as Hawkwind albums go. The ambience, the samples, the electronica, the 70s fuzz, the driving bass and the poetry readings, everything you would expect, and maybe a little bit more but never staying in one place too long. Maybe not quite placed beside their classics but definitely worth a spin and of course these songs are going to sound amazing live.