TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER

After years of silence on the studio album front, does Take Me To Your Leader break the curse Hawkwind had seemingly been under since Levitation (or, if you want to be particularly hardline, Warrior On the Edge of Time) where they simply couldn't manage to make a studio album worthy of their illustrious name? Unfortunately not, as most listeners will realise when they note that the first song is merely a re-recording of an old Calvert era track which was perfectly good in its original incarnation. And the new compositions are just outright tedious. I really should give up and turn my attention to Hawkwind's live albums, really, because I hear they had at least a few more of interest.