Choose Your Masques

by Hawkwind

Choose Your Masques cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 29 October 1982
  • Label: RCA
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:43:57
  • Community rating: 3.16/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Doctor Technical, Technician Gloom, Pat Moran

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Released during a highly prolific period for the space rock pioneers, this record sees the band heavily integrating sequencers and drum machines alongside their trademark cosmic riffs. The lyrical themes continue their exploration of science fiction and dystopian futures, underscored by dense, repetitive synthesizer textures. Despite frequent lineup instability, it successfully modernized their psychedelic onslaught for the 1980s.

Genres

Descriptors: suite, progressive, repetitive

Tracklist

  1. Choose Your Masques (5:28)
  2. Dream Worker (5:00)
  3. Arrival in Utopia (5:45)
  4. Utopia (2:59)
  5. Silver Machine (4:21)
  6. Void City (6:47)
  7. Solitary Mind Games (3:56)
  8. Farenheit 451 (4:43)
  9. The Scan (1:04)
  10. Waiting for Tomorrow (3:50)
  11. Psychedelic Warlords - Non-Vari-Speed Mix (5:02)
  12. Silver Machine - Longer Single Mix (3:46)
  13. Void City - Alternate Mix (6:38)
  14. Candle Burning (2:48)
  15. 5/4 (3:21)
  16. Waiting For Tomorrow - Alternate Mix (3:43)
  17. Radio Telepathy (5:44)
  18. Lato (2:34)
  19. Dream Worker - Extended Version (5:34)
  20. Oscillations (3:04)
  21. Recent Reports (5:48)
  22. Lato Percussive Electro (Earthed To The Ground) (3:45)
  23. Solitary Mind Games - Alternate Version (5:06)
  24. Silver Machine - Single Version (2:58)

Credits

  • Hawkwind - primary artist
  • Partridge Rushton Associates - artwork [finished artwork]
  • Martin Griffin - drums [dms]
  • Ian Holm - guest
  • Nik Turner - guest
  • Pascoe Brock - guest
  • Terry Oakes - illustration
  • Ray Staff - lacquer cut by

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