THE ASTEROID #4

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Reviews for "These Flowers of Ours: A Treasury of Witchcraft & Devilry"....
"The album plays like a pastoral work of stargazing time-travel...the group writes catchy and accessible pop songs, driven by the lazy vocals and quirky vocal melodies" NPR
"...The album is sure to win listeners over if they’re looking for hazy hooks and smoky folk-rock, which the band pulls off successfully. By integrating an array of different musical elements, the band has finally found its own sound...and because of this, it seems that their best work is only yet to come.."Alarmpress.com
"These Flowers of Ours: A Treasury of Witchcraft and Devilry is seeing the group at their most ambitious and consistently successful."Obscuresound.com
"The Asteroid No. 4 is a modern day throwback to both the 60s and early 90s, mixing the spaced out psychedelia of the flower children with the introspective navel gazing of Morrissey-spawn. Around in some incarnation for over a decade, Philly’s favorite space rock is getting stronger as it ages."Popculturewilleatitself.com
"These Flowers of Ours: A Treasury of Witchcraft and Devilry belongs in an open field somewhere alongside strands of beads and perhaps a bag of some sort of grassy substance. It is an elixir of pure perception, a charming wave of filmy tonic with the ability to overtake the natural frenzied order and incite a lasting peace."Blogcritics.org
"These Flowers Of Ours channels an array of 60s subgenres, from folk and psych to jangle-pop and British Invasion. Layered under these vintage sounds, The Asteroid No. 4 combines elements of each sub-genre in a modern blender, portioning all the right amounts to create a concoction they can easily call their own. The result is a cohesive album, both fun and dreamy."Fencepost.com
Previous Reviews....
"An Amazing Dream is the Asteroid No. 4's most mature and focused album yet." All Music Guide
"An Amazing Dream" is moody British pop with an early-Sixties drug dealer, full of lysergic explosions and tremolo attacks." Austin Chronicle
"Imagine Brian Jonestown Massacre without all the drama, or Dead Meadow with a serious pop fetish, and you’re there." Philadelphia Weekly
"An Amazing Dream is truly an amazing reality...a career high" The Sun, UK 4.5 out of 5 stars
"There's genuine invention here...3 out of 4 stars" Uncut
"Dream shows that, over a decade in, they're just getting started." www.stereogum.com, Band To Watch: The Asteroid 4
"An Amazing Dream returns to the band's space-cadet guitar jangle and is the perfect prescription for Brian Jonestown Massacre/Dandy Warhols devotees who've been let down by their Left Coast heroes." Magnet Magazine
"Picture Robert Pollard producing a Matthew Sweet record with My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields on guitar and you'll have some idea whether the Asteroid 4 is right for you." playbackstl.com
"Each track maintains its own identity, but the album is cohesive enough to make a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts." The Daily Tar Heel, North Carolina. 3.5 out of 4 stars
"An Amazing Dream showcases A4's recognizable grooviness, but not without a few twists and turns and some superior songwriting" OCWeekly
"This is an adventure in lulling psychedelia, dreamy guitars, distant vocals, and echoing space-rock, flirting with California country, and exhibiting British pop invasion overtones." NewMexicoMusic.org
"Philadelphia's the Asteroid 4 savors the crevices of '60s music without confining itself to a single style, flirting with California country alongside British Invasion pop." TimeOut New York.
"Imagine the Beach Boys circa PET SOUNDS filtered through some serious weirdness after about a dozen bong hits. That’s the impression I got from the Asteroid 4. Gorgeous vocals coupled with a desolate-yet-warm guitar tone and some odd touches make this an impressive album...this is a must for avant-pop fans." movementmagazine.com
"Such mixtures of softness and noise, along with an almost flawless knack for a tune, make this Dream impressive, if not amazing." Orlando Sentinel
"Asteroid 4 has refined a spacey, folky style and leveraged this into a series of energetic and optimistic, if not always brilliant, songs." popmatters.com
"If you're looking to be taken by a wash of dreamy sound...this may the album for you." thephiller.com
"Straight out of some lost Barrett songbook, all echoing, loose-stringed guitars and speaker-shredding fuzz" Q Magazine
"Ah, fuzzy pondering, feedback-laden pop, epic high-reaching guitars. This tremolo-driven narrative features a fine batch of beautifully written psych-pop with an amazing, thickly layered sound. Chilly, desert-night wanderings and sunflower-field hallucinations — a joy!" Real Detroit Weekly
"....soaring guitars, scrape-the-sky vocals, and bustling melodies" Stylus Magazine
"If the rest of the album sounds as good as "Here We Go" and "Ask Me About Pittsburgh," this should be one hell of a great album." thetripwire.com