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 Flag High 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.