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Hawkwind - PXR 5 (expanded/remastered)

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"The album, originally recorded in 1977 & 1978 and released in 1979, was the band's final masterpiece for Charisma records that perfectly embraced the influence of the musical New Wave to deliver one of the most effective albums released during Calvert’s tenure with Hawkwind. This expanded edition features 8 bonus tracks, 5 previously unreleased including We Like to Be Frightened . Featuring such classic tracks as Robot High Rise, Jack of Shadows, Death Trap and PXR 5, this reissue has been re-mastered from the original master tapes (a first for any CD issue of this album)."

Regrouping following the year-long Hawklords adventure, Hawkwind's end-of-the-'70s incarnation was the last to feature vocalist/poet Bob Calvert alongside fellow veterans Simon House, Simon King, and, of course, Dave Brock. It is also the last in the sequence of brittle, pop-inflected records the band launched with Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music. But what farewells it contained. The opening "Death Trap," the ruminations of a doomed race car driver, kicks the album off with an explosion of energy and excitement that is positively punk-ish in its intensity. More than any of their own contemporaries, Hawkwind both understood and allowed themselves to absorb the energies of new wave, and only a faint unease about the band's supposed hippie leanings prevented them from linking with the Stooges, the New York Dolls, and the Velvet Underground in the pantheon of punky godfathers. The atmospherically drifting "High Rise," too, packs a certain fashionability, dwelling upon the rigors of life atop the towering concrete rabbit hutches that were springing up over the nation's cities, and haunting listeners with one of the most anthemic choruses in the entire Hawkwind canon. But traditional Hawkwind themes are not overlooked. "Uncle Sam's on Mars," while not a patch on the live versions of the day, is a throbbing and deeply spacy return to Space Ritual pastures, and the roughshod "Infinity" could have slipped out of In Seach of Space..."-Dave Thompson/All Music Guide


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