Nektar’s fourth album is unlike any of their others. In their 70s heyday they were generally a pretty good jam band, swerving between prog, space rock and psychedelia. Englishmen who formed the group in Hamburg, they sometimes even got misidentified as krautrock.
Yet in 1973 they experienced a surge in popularity as Remember The Future, a concept album involving extraterrestrials, a blind boy and something about profound human enlightenment, entered the Billboard Top 20 and wowed floating voters. They never quite matched it afterwards, but a photograph of Ian Curtis, pre-Joy Division, wearing a Nektar T-shirt, meant their fade from fashion was leisurely and dignified.
