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"Into the Woods" is a concept album and the 30th full length studio album by space rock band Hawkwind, released on 5 May 2017 on the Cherry Red label.
Nature is the theme behind the latest release from the British space rock band led by Dave Brock.
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Hawkwind in 2017 will either seem like an irrelevance or the continuation of a vital source, just as The Wind will strike you either as four minutes of flatulent pseudo-poetry (‘Causing sighing trees to overlay mosaics of trembling leaves’ indeed) or a stirring incantation neatly blending nature-imagery and sound FX. But chances are, by the astral boogie of Magic Scenes and chugging insistence of Wood Nymph, you’ll be seduced, ‘silent tendrils of the mist’ and all. Magic Mushroom is the nine-minute blowout, a protean swirl of organ and guitars, where rock meets trance. Think Chuck Berry if he emerged during rave – Goa, Johnny, Goa. After several minutes of organ vamping and guitar extrapolating, there is the sound of a spacecraft whooshing skywards. Into The Woods might not be Hawkwind’s best album, but it’s the most essential now. Why? To keep the force alive.
Reviewed by Paul Lester for loudersound.com.
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