A follow‑up to 2021’s VI: The Phenomenon of Luminosity, this release continues YSMHB’s long‑standing habit of revisiting its own catalogue as if it were an open field rather than a fixed history. (Our Course) Determined by Our Stars (The Spacing Out Phasing In Sessions) draws its title from the same Hawkwind's lyric source (D-Rider) that once informed Metamorphose, Tetraform (EP) — another quiet nod to the group’s enduring Hawkwind fixation, a fixation rarely audible but always embedded in the naming architecture of the project.

Assembled and arranged at Silas Langley Circle Sound, the album runs fourteen tracks across just over an hour. Twelve pieces are reimagined constructions from earlier releases; two are new works that act as the album’s bookends. The opener, “I Found You,” functions as a brief invocation — seventeen seconds in, Howard Carter’s voice surfaces, describing the moment light first entered Tutankhamun’s sarcophagus. The track folds in on itself midway, reversing into a small experimental knot before dissolving. The closer, “In the Warmth ov Good Memories,” hints at the project’s own name through a subtle “orange sunshine” reference, serving as a final after‑image once the album’s internal circuitry has run its course.

The material between these poles is a study in temporal dislocation. The original tracks — “terrible,” as the notes say, though YSMHB has never been interested in good or bad — are treated as moments rather than monuments. They existed, and that was enough. These new versions exist differently, because they were approached in a different moment. Had they been reconstructed earlier or later, they would have sounded different still. This is the logic of the Sessions: each track is a snapshot of the exact time in which it was re‑entered.

Several pieces from Metamorphose, Tetraform (EP) appear in altered form.

• “Stars in Feedback Loop” becomes “Sphere; Evaluation Cycle Loop.”

• “Dibbuk/Kisalon” is now “Dybbuk,” with a brief nod to the Dybbuk box and its folklore.

• “Commodity Abounds in Metaphysical Subtleties” expands into “Where the Commodity Dissolves into an Economy ov Metaphysical Subtleties.”

• “The Dictator Chaplin” shifts into “The Dictator’s Transmission.”

Two tracks from the debut LP Bourgeois Doppelgänger — itself titled after Hawkwind’s “Steppenwolf” — are also reworked.

• “An Architect of Her Own Reality” appears in two forms: “An Architect ov Reality” and “An Architect, A Reality Builder.” Both versions lean into the project’s laissez‑faire, nonchalant approach to self‑revision.

• “Cognitive Dissonance” becomes “Dissonance as Cognitive Split‑Frequencies in a Two‑Pattern Event.”

• “Untitled C,” originally part of Please Insert Your Own Music (where listeners were encouraged to fill the track’s empty spaces), remains “The C Section was and remains Untitled.”

From The Akashic Record (Akashic Series), two early appearances return in altered form.

• “Must Have Been a Mild Winter” re‑emerges as “Apricity in the Morning Air.”

• “Kota~Harmonie~Diponegoro (for Idrus/Chairil Anwar)” becomes “The Arrest of Pangeran Diponegoro.” Diponegoro — the Javanese prince who led the Java War (1825–1830) against Dutch colonial rule — was ultimately captured under the guise of negotiation. His story, often depicted in Indonesian art and literature, threads through the reworked piece as a historical echo.

From In Wood Be My Image — a title inspired by Nik Turner’s Sphynx track “Anubis” —

• “Iehi Aour” is reframed as “Let There Be Light.”

And from the View EP,

• “Necessitating a New Concept of Positive Transformation” becomes “A Brief Re‑Phrase ov Positive Transformation.”

Across all of this, the album remains classically YSMHB: schizophrenic in structure, esoteric in tone, and unconcerned with contemporary musical fashion. The Sessions treat the past not as something to correct but as something to re‑enter — a set of coordinates that shift each time they are approached. These tracks are not improvements, nor apologies, nor restorations. They are simply what they are now, in this moment, under these stars.