RECYCLED

This is the best thing I've heard all year. I'm surprised that, at the moment, it doesn't get more than 4 stars! Unacceptable!

Recycled, Nektar's sixth album, is a conceptual Space Rock album, released in 1975, that deals with themes such as; The environment and its deterioration caused by mankind, raising awareness about how mankind is slowly destroying the Earth and its nature, and how we can do to improve this whole situation that can lead to our extinction.

I have been looking forward to "Nektar" to listen to their albums for a long time. I started with "A Tab in the Ocean", and... God, what a great album! I'll probably do a review of it soon. I recommend you, likewise, to start their discography from their first album. Because, it's a great developed band, and each album has its aesthetics and its rhythms and melodies so juicily sweet and characteristic.

I thought the theme of "Recycled" was a great idea. Really, spreading and generating social awareness about the situation of Mother Nature is something very important and necessary, especially in these times of pandemics and other problems, that there are people who stop giving priority to all this, and worry only about their own things, without helping simultaneously to make this a better planet (and with this, I don't mean that everyone is like that, but there are many people who choose these attitudes, thinking it's the right thing to do, when it's not).

As for the songs, they are wonderful! The way they put together so many epic and great musical works, each with a not very long duration, forming two songs ("Recycled: Part One" & "Recycled: Part Two"), which in the end, is all one song.... And what a song, I'd call it, A perfectly crafted masterpiece!

It really is a beautiful whole album. The combination of bittersweet melodies, the comforting rhythms, the cosy atmosphere throughout the album, Roy Albrighton's soft vocals, all make this album get my total respect. Honestly, how beautiful it was to listen to this album for the first time, so many emotions together in one project. Nektar deserves much more recognition than they get! And without a doubt, he has earned all my affection with this beautiful work.

And don't even get me started on the final song, "It's All Over", an eletric, ambiguous, loving ending with such a pure, moving and inspiring melody, accompanied by a piano, with a guitar in the background and angelic backing vocals, that's how a masterpiece like this album ends!

Recycled: Part One (Recycle, Cybernetic Consumption, Recycle Countdown, Automaton Horrorscope, Recycling, Flight to Reality, Unendless Imagination?): 5/5

Recycled: Part Two (SÃo Paulo Sunrise, Costa Del Sol, Marvellous Moses, It's All Over): 5/5

10/10, 5 stars for the greatest piece of environmental music I've ever heard in my life. Honestly, this album has put me in a very good mood today, so without further ado; Have a beautiful day, fulfill your dreams, be happy, and let's all take care of this beautiful planet together!

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