STONERIDER 

Fountains Left to Wake 

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Don’t be misled by the extramusical trappings of this Atlanta trio’s latest—neither the Floyd-at-Pompeii visuals of the cover, seemingly designed for meditating upon while in an altered state, nor its double-album sprawl. StoneRider singer and guitarist Matt Tanner, bass player Neil Warren and drummer Jason Krutzky do seem to believe rock peaked in 1973 (and there’s a case to be made), but they also share that era’s fascination with the naïve roughhousing of 1950s—think Led Zeppelin’s jones for Ritchie Valens, or the Who weaponizing Eddie Cochran’s strain of the “Summertime Blues.” Fountains Left to Wake is a potent argument for the endless roadhouse variations that can still be built on rock’s boogie-blasted blueprints.