Hawkwind
In Search of Space

I discovered this album by chance: a friend of mine gave me a book about progressive music, and this was listed as one of the key albums of the era. I did some research, bought the album, and listened to it. I had to admit that it is indeed a great album. The band's style is heavily influenced by psychedelic groups while somehow climbing aboard the then-emerging progressive bandwagon. But let's analyze the album track by track:

1)You Shouldn't Do That From sounds that seem to come from a spacecraft, it fades into a single guitar chord that will sustain the song for its entire duration (15 minutes). The piece is excellent with a truly magnificent instrumental fabric on which distorted and slowed voices are grafted, proclaiming senseless phrases.

2)You Know You're Only Dreaming starts as a "canonical" rock piece, but after a few seconds, it slips into a jam session in the same vein as the previous one.

3)Master Of The Universe: undoubtedly the masterpiece of the album: a very Sabbath-like song in the riff that supports it, with the peculiarity of having unidentified electronic sounds in the instrumental part. Truly a great piece that has nothing to envy from the best pages of their peers of these young guys (who by now would be over sixty).

4)We Took The Wrong Step Years Ago: another masterpiece: this album seems to have no weak points. After solid hard-rock pieces with electronic digressions, one certainly wouldn't expect a magnificent acoustic ballad (let's not forget that the singer Dave Brock cut his teeth in folk) with a perfect melody.

5)Adjust Me : The worst track on the album is not a bad piece in itself, but it is too tied to those years and, for this reason, has aged poorly.

6) Children Of The Sun : As the album's closing, they choose an acoustic piece that serves as a perfect seal to this record.

An excellent album that I recommend you buy; I don't give it a 5 only because the sound is indeed very dated in some songs compared to many other bands that were more commercially successful.