The Asteroid No. 4 - Hail To The Clear Figurines download free

For all Philadelphia was in the early years of music, the city certainly seems to have given up its status when it comes to new artists, though there are exceptions ... case in point are Asteroid No. 4 who have been carrying the psychedelic flag for nearly fifteen years now, and here on Hail To The Clear Figurines, probably their finest release, show no intentions of slowing down, or disappearing into the ether. The album is available as a download, on disc, or on a sweet piece of 180 red plastic.The Astroids turn the tables and jumpstart the album with “Wicked Wire,” a hard driving number with an irresistible backbeat, and then slide into the soaring trippy numbers, filled with washes of colour, spacious sound, superb reverb, echo, slow-drive jangling guitars, processed vocals, and delicate melodic touches that lightly reach out to caress the sides of your face ... just to make sure that you’re still conscious, and ever so slightly aware.This is one of those brilliant albums that sounds like it’s been lost for forty five years, and has just been discovered on some dusty shelf ... though in reality, the band takes full advantage of current technologies while drawing deeply from the garage psychedelic sounds of the mid 1960’s, bending your mind as you float down stream with shaded kaleidoscope eyes, on a raft rigged with windowpane sails.