The second Clear Blue Sky conceptual album "Cosmic Crusader" brims with innovative, true Progressive Space Rock from start to finish. You may ask why I should define the album's contents so categorically, while there is the only, short yet obvious exception, which almost entirely contradicts with my words. The answer is simple: when I program the album on my CD-player I just exclude the 3-minute sugary ballad Every Living Thing and listen to the 46-minute long "Cosmic Crusader" album, which is really full of all those wonderful things. As for the so roughly destroyed lyrical conception, I have time to read the lyrics of Every Living Thing in the album's booklet before The Serpent's Venom begins. So let's start. Opened with nice spacey instrumental intro Earth, the Rock and closed with the title-track, which is a long (9-minute) epic and a majestic musical flight to the farthest spaces of spacey music, "Cosmic Crusader" is, in my view, the best album among all those that represented the sub-genre in the 1990s, including Hawkwind. All the album's songs-nuclei, beginning with The Age of Dinosaurs, down through The Serpent's Venom, Picture Puzzle, Highway of Fire, People of Darkness, and to conclude with Supernatural, contain all the essential ingredients of real Progressive Space Rock. Variegated fluid guitar solos are either supported by heavy, hypnotic guitar riffs or surrounded by flowing spacey waves. Unusual beats of the heart of the Universe are reflected by the excellent drumming, while pulsating bass lines remind of the signals of pulsars. Meanwhile the soaring vocals of the starship's Commander tell a story of the Earthly people, forgotten somewhere in the spaces of time and in the times of space, who have forgotten themselves and, having lost their way in a wood of just two trees of Good and Evil, can't even imagine that they, Entities of the United Universe, are actually just waiting for another big bang. Beautiful voices of an Unearthly female Entity sometimes responds to Commander's thoughts, confirming them, and the flashes of the dying stars, accentuated by the effects of keyboards and guitar-synth, echo these monologues.