TCCDM Pulls One Out..."Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind (1974)
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"Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind (1974) "Hall Of The Mountain Grill" is much more chill than I expected, but wonderfully so. The music is dense with layers of synths, Mellotrons, and oboes. Saxes and tasty guitar-riffage. Pleasing sounds that surprise the mind. Hawkwind rocks and trips whenever and wherever it pleases, as they are wont to do. But this square sounds even more in-the-moment. Cosmic, but without the debris. I really liked it. Perhaps not as hard as Hawkwind's earlier albums, but it doesn't disappoint. Apart from an occasional odd mixing (a little muddy in places), I like everything about it. And it's a delicious conundrum that you can crank this puppy without restraint in the daytime or kick back in the late-evening and chill the fawk out. It's a square that's two mints in one . "Hall Of The Mountain Grill" - Hawkwind (back) "Hall Of The M...