The second album from Promised Land Sound walks the same streets as other retro country rock bands, but the Nashville quintet boasts enough snap to put extra pride in its stride. Guitarists Sean Thompson and Peter Stringer-Hye pay homage to the past without copycatting, the latter joining with bassist Joe Scala for the kind of burnished harmonies that sweeten any pot. Evoking both Sixties England and Seventies California, “Golden Child” and “Otherworldly Pleasures” sound topical and timeless. (Sun., 2pm, Reverberation stage)

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This article appears in April 29 • 2016.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.