Monday 22 April 2013

HAWKWIND LIGHT ORCHESTRA REVIEW



HAWKWIND LIGHT ORCHESTRA
Stellar Variations
hloA low-fat line-up of space-rock champions carry out an attention-arresting flying exercise.
The power chords of opener “Stellar Perspective” blow away any suspicious associations of a new HAWKS spin-off with ELO or any other sort of levity, although there’s a lot of symphonic sweep and vibrant delicacy in some of these tracks – ten fresh, if partly road-tested, and a kaleidoscopic reading of Tim Blake’s solo piece “A Song For A New Age”. Yet the keyboardist’s not on board of HLO, the band comprised of guitarist Dave Brock, bassist Niall Hone and drummer Richard Chadwick, who live close to each other, so there’s no other agenda behind it all save for the geographical one. And save for that, their album is an epitome of the HAWKWIND’s progressive component, with their typical Ladbroke Grove roughness close to a minimum.

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