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Hawkwind

In Search of Space

on hawkwind's second album the seminal spacerockers began to assemble the pieces that would come to be regarded as their signature sound while some elements of leader dave brock's folkie past were still extant most notably the surprisingly poignant 'we took the wrong step years ago' the heavy guitar riffs wooshing electronic effects and sciencefiction lyrics that typified the eventually predominant hawkwind style all came into play on in search of space though bassist lemmy had yet to hop aboard the spaceship hawkwind's protometal tendencies were already apparent in the downright black sabbathlike 'master of the universe' the aciddamaged 'adjust me' and the mono maniacal onechord jam 'you shouldn't do that' attest to the growing freakiness of the band a quality that would only continue to endear them to a hardy contingent of fans as their farout tendencies increased limited 180 gram reissue on red vinyl