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Eulogy Presents: Atta Boywith The Wonderfool
Saturday, November 2nd
Eulogy - 10 Buxton Ave. Asheville, NC 28801
Doors 7PM || Show 8PM
Atta Boy
Resurfacing like cicadas, L.A.-born Atta Boy has never been in a hurry. Instead, responding to some strange seasonal instinct when it comes to recording, their unique, beguiling, comforting, and yet aching blend of pop-Americana seems to arrive in waves, well-formed, fully-gestated, yet hungry and soul-searching. Mixing indie influences with coffee-shop confessionalism, the quartet first found eachother in the hazy days of high school. Navigating the high-strung emotional peaks and valleys of American adolescence, this close-knit crew shaped those experiences into a considerably mature debut, 2012's Out of Sorts, to be released before they were old enough to order a drink. And then they disappeared.
Yet here they all are again, the old friends with new stories to share. Back-end barn-burner, BOYS, also captures this catch-me-up energy. Holding court ahead of the record, Brolin brought out a notebook and asked each bandmate for five things that make them happy. "I wanted to check-in with the boys, and bring their experiences together into the album," she explains. Still, even this happy homecoming is tinged by the bittersweet; lyrically leading to questions like, "What's home when home's where everyone's gone/ and a bed is made in every town?"
All that to say, this band of old-neighborhood besties aren't at all naive about the pitfalls of the past. Atta Boy willingly acknowledge the honeytrap of the good-old-days and evoke a wisened awareness of their still rising trajectory. As seen on the mean memory-trip that is SPRING SEVENTEEN, a touching little ditty wholly embracing the saccharine reality inherent in wonton reminiscing, Brolin soulfully sings, "Lost in a brief memory/ like a song you get used to/ loosen the grip of reverie… I don't know you like I used to."
It's in this spirit of entropy and negentropy that Atta Boy have once again found themselves coalescing around a shared, collective pang that drives their collaboration and their joyful celebration of all things living, dying, dissolving, and reforming — like a perennial posy pushing through the underbrush to bloom under the first shouts of springtime sunshine, beautiful and golden. Again. And again.
The Wonderfool
The Wonderfool is a soundtrack for early mornings and late nights. Dreamt into existence by an Ohio native who's spent the better part of a decade onstage, on the road, and in the recording studio, it's indie-folk music to bookend your day.
Stuck indoors by the pandemic that had forced his other band — the chart-topping folk group CAAMP — to cancel their touring plans, Vinson found himself with ample time on his hands. He turned that isolation into an opportunity to create something new. Operating out of his home studio in Columbus, Vinson began piecing together The Wonderfool's fourth release, Shiner, during a series of morning songwriting sessions and day-long studio shifts. "Shiner" was released on August, 11th 2021 via Gjenny Records.
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10 Buxton Avenue, Asheville, North Carolina 28801, United States
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