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  • Summary: This is the 35th full-length studio release from British space rock band Hawkwind.
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  • Record Label: Cherry Red
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Art Rock, Psychedelic/Garage, British Psychedelia, Prog-Rock
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  1. The Wire
    Jun 7, 2023
    80
    The Future Never Waits (oh, that pesky future!) benefits from the addition of former Coil/Spiritualized/Waterboys keyboard player Thighpaulsandra, who appears to have opened up the band’s sound in such a way that seems almost effortless. [Jul 2023, p.52]
  2. Uncut
    May 2, 2023
    80
    The band's creativity, imagination and power remain undimmed. [Jun 2023, p.29]
  3. Mojo
    May 2, 2023
    80
    Lemmy-recalling rocker The End finds chief pilot Dave Brock poignantly recalling years of adventure as past Hawkwind sonic signatures collide, while the mordantly comic The Beginning looks in electronic/acoustic fashion to a post-human existence of uploaded consciousness. [Jun 2023, p.85]
  4. May 2, 2023
    70
    More consistent than 2021's Somnia and 2019's All Aboard the Skylark, The Future Never Waits is, at once, more exciting and musically adventurous -- even with the (minor) missteps. This is a significant late-career highlight from Hawkwind.
  5. Classic Rock Magazine
    May 2, 2023
    70
    This album feels like musicians bouncing ideas off of each other in the same room. [Jun 2023, p.75]