Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love - New LP

Format: New LP Label: SONY Cat. No. 88875134521

Barcode: 887654197115

Released: 06/10/2017

Another vital album from Hendrix, containing some of rock's molten milestones. There's the fluid psychedelia of "Castles Made Of Sand", the viciously funky "Little Miss Lover", and the so-beautiful-it-hurts "Little Wing".

Hendrix really hits altitude with "If 6 Was 9", where he waves his freak over a tidal wave of guitar and a cacophonous army of Moroccan flutes, and he ends with "Bold As Love", based around Hendrix's typically far-fetched hankering for the axis of the planet to be tilted, thereby transforming life on earth. It works up into a head-melting frenzy of distorted guitar, a precursor to the staggeringly expansive leap forward he would take with 1968's Electric Ladyland.

Hendrix dreamed the impossible and achieved it on his guitar.