HAWKWIND LIGHT ORCHESTRA: CARNIVOROUS

As with the previous "Hawkwind Light Orchestra" album, this is Dave Brock working with a smaller subset of the then-current Hawkwind lineup for a studio album. In this case, it's a project prompted by the COVID pandemic and lockdown, with the participants exchanging parts they'd recorded at home for later mixing; the title's an anagram of "Coronavirus" as a nod to this.

As such, whilst the earlier Hawkwind Light Orchestra album (Stellar Variations) was born of a creative decision to do that particular experiment, this was born out of necessity. It feels a little less compelling - valuable at the time as an exercise in making Hawkwind-esque music for the sake of keeping the lights on during a dark time, but somewhat more forgettable after the fact. Call it a low three and a half stars.