Reading the band’s bio, you’d think their career to date – some fifteen years and several previous albums – had been a voyage of discovery that had led them down the road to successive failures, each release in some way falling short of their ambitions and expectations.
There’s nothing like dismissing your entire career to date to sell your latest release, and while I’m unfamiliar with their previous work, it’s fair to say that representative or nay, this is pretty good.
‘Rukma Vimana’ comes on somewhere between ‘I Wanna Be Your Dog’ and the Jesus and Mary Chain’s ‘Reverence’, a dense smog of buzzing guitars tracing a classic descending chord sequence that never grows tired, while ‘Ghosts of Dos Erres’ returns us to to domain of the hypnotic guitar and motorik rhythm, a swirling kaleidoscope of psychedelic shoegaze. ‘Revolution Prevail’ amalgamates driving punk and ‘Silver Machine’ with glitter, tweets and reverb by the shedload.
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Space rock anthems are where it’s at, and The Asteroid No 4 really have managed to relaunch themselves with a stellar set here.
Asteroid No. 4 Online
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