• New Music Reviews
• |
• Archives
• |
• News
• |
• Submissions
• |
• About
• |
• 
• |
• 

November 2024

• Voodoo Circle: Hail To The King
• Lionville: Supernatural
• Starchaser: Into The Great Unkown
• Empires Of Eden: Guardians Of Time
• Lonerider: Down In The Dust
• Seventh Crystal: Entity
• Neal Morse & The Resonance: No Hill For A Climber
• Beardfish: Songs For Beating Hearts
• Impellitteri: War Machine
• Brothers Of Metal: Fimbulvinter

October 2024

• Casandra's Crossing: Garden Of Earthly Delights
• DGM: Endless
• Daytona: Garder la Flamme
• Fate: Reconnect 'N Ignite
• Frost*: Life In The Wires
• Aries Descendant: From The Ashes Of Deceit
• Fans Of The Dark: Video
• Radioactive: Reset
• House Of Lords: Full Tilt Overdrive
• Cleanbreak: We Are The Fire

September 2024

• Sinner's Blood: Dark Horizons
• Serious Black: Rise Of Akhenaton
• Eclipse: Megalomanium II
• SteelCity: Reverence
• Hydra: ReHydrated
• Heartwind: III
• Gabrielle De Val and the Dragonlords: Tiger
• Find Me: Nightbound
• The Nail: The Nail
• Timeless Fairytale: A Story To Tell
• Stryper: When We Were Kings
• Phil Mogg: Moggs Motel
• Pure Reason Revolution: Coming Up To Consciousness
• Jordan Rudess: Permission To Fly

August 2024

• Siege Perilous: Creation's Call EP
• Paralydium: Universe Calls
• Mike Tramp: Songs Of White Lion Vol. II
• Bite The Bullet: Looking For Paradise
• All For Metal: Gods Of Metal (Year Of The Dragon)
• Hammerfall: Avenge The Fallen
• Jim Peterik & World Stage: Roots & Shoots Vol. 2

[ More Music Reviews ]

Hawkwind: Space Hawks

Melodic Space Rock

3.0/5.0

Website Facebook
Four Worlds Media
by Craig Hartranft,  31.01.2014

If you're counting Space Hawks is Hawkwind's 29th studio album, in their long career that dates back to the Stone Age, 1969 really. Founder Dave Brock still leads the band even as he approaches the age of Methuselah, actually only in his Seventies. But onward the space rock hippies go, nevertheless.

While Space Hawks is a new album, there's some confusion surrounding it. First, it was supposedly released in the US last Fall, coinciding with a North American tour, then later in the UK. Parts, if not all, of the dates of the tour were cancelled when Brock fell ill. Was the album released after all? It's rather unclear. Promotional material Dangerdog received has a release date of February 2014. Then there's more confusion about the double vinyl edition; it appears from the Hawkwind site that it's available now.

More confusion arises with the content of the album. Of the 16 songs, there's little actual 'new' material here. If I count correctly, which I doubt I did because the information on the Hawkwind and Plastic Head Music sites is perplexing and divergent, there are five original songs: We Two Are One, Sacrosanct, Touch, The Chumps Are Jumping, and Lonely Moon. The latter three clock under two minutes each. The rest of the songs are new re-recorded versions of other Hawkwind songs. Yet it still pure Hawkwind space rock with the ethereal and spacey keyboards and vocals, peppered with some sharp, often psychedelic, guitar leads. Ultimately, Space Hawks is likely best suited for the diehard fan. Alternatively, if you've never considered classic and seminal space rock, it would also be a good introduction.

Note: All Amazon advertising in this review first benefits the artist, then Craig Hartranft also receives a residual. Click, and thanks for your support.

Space Hawks offers a mish-mash of a few songs with many reworkings of other Hawkwind songs. Definitely an album for the diehard and dedicated Hawkwind fan.

Alphabetical Index

eviewing my archives, I was pleased to find that I have had the privilege to review every Lionville since their self-titled debut in 2011. Formed by Stefano Lionetti, a songwriter, singer and guitarist based in ... [ Read More ]