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Northern Songs
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Price: $12.00
Artist:
The Asteroid No. 4
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The Asteroid No.
4 have always worn their influences on their collective sleeves and the tongues
firmly planted in their cheeks. A heady
collective of musicologists, their albums have ranged from Cosmic Country
Americana to “Rubble”-styled beat, hallucinatory psychedelia, and many other
flavors of the musical rainbow in between.
Their records always glisten. “They take you on two simultaneous journeys on
this outing; one is high octane and otherworldly, the other walks through
English music history, (whether intentionally or not). It’s an intense juxtaposition and placement
of sound that is bravely, and perfectly, executed.” – BackseatMafia.com “Kicking off with ‘All Mixed Up’, the A4
sound as if they’ve been revisiting their Roy Orbison records – a 50’s pastiche
of bravura choruses, swelling strings, and strident testosterone-drenched vocal
pyrotechnics to do the Big O proud. But then it’s back to their Spacemen 3
forebears with the otherworldly vibrating, tingling electronic buzz of ‘Hand
Grenade’ with amps and guitars set to ‘Stun’! ‘Paint It Green’ changes horses
again, toe-dipping into Bowie territory, circa ‘Heroes’. ‘No One Weeps’ is a groovy rewrite of
Donovan’s ‘Sunshine Superman’ as interpreted by Brian Jonestown Massacre, and
‘I Don’t Care’ is one of those big anthemic fist-pumpers that were all the
Britpop rage when bands like Oasis, Pulp, Charlatans, Blur, Ride, and Jesus and
Mary Chain ruled the airwaves. If anyone
released singles anymore, this would be a sure chart-topper. Other
unforgettable earwigs include the paint-peeling wall of guitars shoegazey
elegance that rages throughout ‘Juniper’, guitars that change to glistening
waterfalls of crystalline sunshine on the title track. Closing out with the
spacey freefalling ‘The After Glow’, the band live up to their name with an
expansive journey to the stars that may extend a top of the dome to M83, but
keeps their feet firmly planted in Anglaterra
firma. One of the best releases we’ve heard this year.” –
PsychedelicBabyMag.com Early (Syd
Barrett period) Pink Floyd is a good reference point. GREAT!!
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