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| Envie, X’s For Eyes,
Tijuana Hercules |
Thursday, August 28, Caledonia Lounge
And there are those who would decry the entirety of
Atlanta's scene. While it's easy to toss the musicians of that town
into the fame-hungry and forgettable pot, there is redemption among
those scrambling for mainstream rock notoriety. The Woggles, for
instance, are a terrific garage rock group.
 ENVIE | Ocelot performs a
calculated, emotional instrumental post-rock. And the usually-a-trio
Envie takes the whole rock-meets-classical-meets-goth thing and is
able to avoid the clichés of the genre (the songs, despite their
dark-chamber feel, for instance, are far better than the
middle-school-tortured-poet lyrics that typically mark the genre).
Renée Nelson (American Dream, Aphelion) plays harp and
piano, Deisha Oliver (Osaka, American Dream) plays cello and Kevin
Wallace (Teen Wheat, Christine Keeler Affair) handles the percussion
duties. Michael Overstreet writes the lyrics, sung by Nelson. The
group deftly hops from lamentful dirge to high-tempo romp, welding
the sounds of their instruments into an intoxicating mix, then
splitting off into solos - and how often can you catch a harp solo
at the Caledonia? With luck, you'll also find Envie performing a
stellar cover of R.E.M.'s "Feeling Gravity's Pull."
Gritty
garage-rock trio Tijuana Hercules (former Atlantan John Forbes, of
Dirt and Mount Shasta, fronts the group) plays a sunburnt, howling
and blues-inspired rock and roll. TH's When The Moon Comes Up
Wild sounds like a punk album sent back 50 years and produced at
Sun Studios. X's For Eyes is a Los Angeles quartet that plays a
guitar-heavy rock that would've fit nicely into the Seattle scene of
the last decade. [Chris Hassiotis]
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