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Atlanta is brimming with musicians and they commonly run in the same circles, with band members that play in more than one band and friendly bands that team up on stage. Several music collectives have spawned based on this phenomenon. The collective acts as a springboard and support network for all the bands involved, and usually, but not necessarily emulate a common sound or genre. The Four4 Collective is such a super-group of Atlanta-based musical artisans.

Daniel Bailey of the band Free Ticket, which changed names to Searching For Something We Know Not What, only to go on indefinite hiatus, describes the Four4 Collective, “So many or our friends make music. Its all really nice. We have used the moniker “Four4 Collective” for a good while. We have become it.”

There are more than a handful of bands involved in this collective effort, and they mostly stem from the spacey, droning psych-rock arena of sound. Some are instrumental, while others are not.  Some revel in electronics, others are rather acoustic. There’s an enormous pool of talent here, with moody and penetrating compositions that are well worth your time for a listen.

The acts that take part in the Four4 Collective include:

Searching For Something We Know Not What (4, 3 or 28 piece love machine)
A. Grimes (four piece fright boat)
Faun and A Pan Flute (four Piece stat punk)
Solitude (solo acoustic)
Rattler Snake (solo dream cloud)
Easily Suede (solo electronic/sample/sex machine)
Anonime (3 piece rock ship)
MindWork (solo electronic)
David Gray (solo acoustic)
Carey (solo acoustic)

as well as former bands: