includes "Earth Calling" (live 1972); "We Do It" (BBC Session 1971); "Spirit of the Age" (live 1977) This new release is Hawkwind’s 35 th studio album .. on top of who knows how many ‘live’ albums, there’s nothing here to suggest they’re running on empty just yet. In the past six years, they’ve released 5 studio albums, 2 ‘live’ albums and celebrated their 50 th anniversary with a show at the Albert Hall, London. Years" / "PXR5" (12" only) / "(Only) The Dead Dreams of the Cold War Kid" (Charisma, CB332, 7" & 12") includes "Psychedelia Lives" (Glastonbury 1981); "Drug Cabinet Key" (a.k.a "Flying Doctor") (live 1978) 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.

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. 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. 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.

Tracklist

The album closes with ‘Trapped In This Modern Age’, a song that could easily be played on the radio and is a suitably harmonious closing piece. If you’ve not twigged yet, The Future Never Waits follows the concept of life cycles. One that began with The End, is brought to a conclusion with The Beginning – the reminder to “upload your consciousness here and leave your body at the door marked ‘incinerator‘” – and to step forward for the ‘beginning’ of the next part of the journey. The Future Never Waits’ follows their critically acclaimed 2021 album ‘Somnia’ and 2022 double live album ‘We Are Looking In On You’.

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. 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. 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. Elsewhere on the album we have jazz fused drum and bass with saxophone and piano breaks in the song 'They Are Easy to Distract'. Trippy soundscapes with blistering guitar solos on 'USB1'. Hippie trippy goodness that drifts off into the ether by the end of the song on 'I'm Learning to Live Today'. Spoken word samples and poetry readings fresh from the alternative community and all of Dave Brook’s colourful friends on the fantastic 'Aldous Huxley'.

Contributors

This section contains Various Artists compilations that contain Hawkwind material that was unavailable elsewhere. There have been several CDs and DVDs that have been privately pressed by the band and made available for either members of the band's fan club, or for the audience at gigs. Anniversary (CD) [1] – "Who's Gonna Win the War"; "Ode to a Crystal Set"; "Spirit of the Age"; "Starshine"; "Time and Confusion"; "Paradox"; "Something’s Going On"; "Lighthouse"; "Space Love"; "Diana Park"; "The Right to Decide"