This debut set, long enough overdue for a remastering, displays much of what would soon identify the band, particularly its shifting between ethereal acoustic music and transdimensional electronic hard rock. Here it retains the very loose and very random feeling you might expect they'd have shown in their previous days as park buskers. Their future lyric hybrid is yet to be developed fully. They're a band which has found its sound, but is trying to decide exactly what it is they really have to say. It's a charming sounding album with much good music, particularly their three earliest near-signature numbers, the cheerful acoustic tapper "Hurry On Sundown," the stark surreal sonic wash of "Paranoia," and the spry jam, "Be Yourself," highlighted by reedman Nik Turner's half-Ayler, half-King Curtis saxophone squonk and guitarist Dave Brock's piercingly melodious break, both over a taut rhythm section and keyboardsman Dik Mik Davies's tastefully understated electronica.

This Hawkwind lineup consisting of Brock, Turner, Davies, bassist John Harrison and then Thomas Crimble, second guitarist Huw Lloyd Langton, drummer Terry Ollis wasn't destined to last. Exit Crimble, Langton, and Davies after the album's release and enter ex-Amon Duul bassist Dave Anderson, keyboardsman Del Dettmar, and poet/vocalist Robert Calvert. Ahead lay In Search of Space. And, Hawkwind's truer future.