Improvement Movement, Jaylen Reyes, Important Group [inside]

Tony Aparo, Clark Hamilton, Marshall Ruffin, and Zach Pyles are in a social betterment campaign. Or maybe a non-denominational cult. Or was it a prog-rock quartet? Whatever irreverent press release descriptors the multi-instrumentalists, who arrive from a long line of Atlanta, Ga. oddballs, use for themselves, their music indeed defies description. Harmonizing like an acid-tripping barbershop quartet, the bandmates fuse angular guitars and thoughtful vocal melodies, at once pleasing to the ear and slightly disconcerting to the brain, on August’s Your Perfect Real Life, the third offering in their cult recruitment initiative. Whether you leave their live show – this one recently moved from Brushy Street Commons to the Mohawk indoor – as their latest addition is all up to you. – Carys Anderson