Nektar

Release date: 6/30/2024Label: Deko EntertainmentProduction: NektarAlbum length: 32.26 minGenre: Progressive Rock / Space RockRating: 8.0/10 Nektar, the indestructible veterans of the prog rock scene, who keep going even after the…

»The Other Side« is the perfect band-aid for all the Nektar nostalgics who never made peace with Albrighton's untimely death and weren't won over by the German version of Nektar, because it's their best album since the end of the seventies.

Guitarist and vocalist Roye Albrihgton is a founding member and the boss of the legendary British band Nektar, who were an important part of the fast-growing progressive rock scene in the seventies.

Nektar blew us away in Greifenburg on every level, with their improvisational daring, spontaneous stage presence and superb instrumental chemistry between band members, something you rarely see these days from much younger acts. It's not…

On »Time Machine«, their fourth studio album of original material since their 'return from the dead' in 2000, Nektar don't reinvent the wheel, and in places they sound pretty tired, as if they'd run out of fresh songwriting ideas. Still,…

"Evolution" is a true return to the quality level of the 'golden days.' For Nektar fans before 2000, when it seemed the legendary band would forever belong to the 'distant past,' back when most music was still made with soul and heart, that…

»A Spoonful Of Time« is an album aimed first and foremost at longtime fans of these English space rock greats. They'll find quite a few fun, interesting covers of some of the most beloved rock classics of past decades, even if none of them…

With "The Prodigal Son," Nektar rose from the dead at the turn of the century in convincing fashion, after more than twenty years of total studio hibernation, proving that their musical language is still relevant in the 21st century, even…

»Man in the Moon« isn't a bad album at heart, and it has a fair few things to offer melodic rock fans, but sadly it falls well short of the usual sonic adventurousness of these legendary space rockers.

Despite the dramatic shake-up caused by the (temporary) departure of a key founding member, "Magic Is a Child" is a very good album, eclectic enough to still win over even the snobbiest prog rock purists today.

With the fantastic »Recycled«, Nektar reached for the prog rock stars one last time and hit their artistic peak in every respect, a record that can stand shoulder to shoulder with »Remember The Future«.

On "Down to Earth," Nektar followed their long-awaited commercial breakthrough with a bold leap into the unknown: an offbeat circus concept and some innovative sonic experiments, which paid off surprisingly well.

With "Remember the Future," Nektar created their first true masterpiece and hit a new level of songwriting maturity. This album stands as one of the finest achievements of 1970s progressive rock.

Nektar, the indestructible legends of space-rock-flavored prog, are back after four years with a new studio album, "Book Of Days", their eleventh overall. A small event for the wheezing modern music industry

At over 70 minutes, "Sounds Like This," which originally came out as a double album long before CDs showed up, is completely unique and easily the most controversial record in the whole Nektar discography. That goes both for the positives

Nektar, British space rock visionaries who spent most of their recording time in Germany thanks to bigger tax breaks, took a huge step forward in maturity with "A Tab In The Ocean" after the sci-fi concept debut "Journey To The Centr

In the early '70s, when British progressive rock was entering its most fertile period and so-called space rock, born in its most primitive form out of Pink Floyd and their psychedelic-absurd