This review was published in the October 2022 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 306.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! World in shock as Todd Rundgren makes weird album Space Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Spending your career dressed like a butterfly and providing hair inspiration for Billie Eilish suggests a varied outlook on life, and on Space Force<\/em> the result is a smorgasbord of collaborations which suggests the inside of Todd Rundgren\u2019s head might look like an insane fairground run by the characters from Labyrinth<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Complex basslines underlay the synthesized, airy reverb of Puzzle<\/em> and Head in the Ocean<\/em>, broken up by the four-minute funhouse trip that is Your Fandango<\/em>. Weezer\u2019s Rivers Cuomo guests on buoyant ska track Down With the Ship<\/em>, which is followed by yacht rock sugar rush Godiva Girl<\/em>. Cheap Trick\u2019s Rick Nielsen helps Rundgren blow off some steam during STFU<\/em> and Steve Vai closes the album, articulating his reverence for female mysticism through the medium of shredding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rundgren is possibly the only musician for whom a lack of any thematic coherency across a record doesn\u2019t result in total disaster. It works – don\u2019t ask me how.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phoebe Flys<\/p>\n\n\n\n 8\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This review was published in the October 2022 issue of Classic Rock magazine, no. 306. – Extra! Extra! Read all about it! World in shock as Todd Rundgren makes weird album Space Force. Spending your career dressed like a butterfly and providing hair inspiration for Billie Eilish suggests a varied outlook on life, and on … Continue reading Todd Rundgren: Space Force<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":818,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicmuses.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}