 Released in February 1967 , the Byrds ' fourth album , Younger Than Yesterday , was more varied than its predecessor and saw the band successfully mixing psychedelia with folk rock and country and western influences . Although it received generally positive reviews upon its release , the album was , to a degree , overlooked by the record @-@ buying public and consequently peaked at number 24 on the Billboard chart and number 37 on the UK Albums Chart . However , music expert Peter Buckley has pointed out that although the album may 've passed the Byrds ' rapidly shrinking teen audience by , it found favor with " a new underground following who disdained hit singles , but were coming to regard albums as major artistic statements . " 
