"I'm movin' on," Daniel Womack sings during the first minute of Easy Company, an album that finds Futurebirds — once the best-kept secret of Athens, GA's music scene, now a beloved act on a national scale — back in the driver's seat, speeding together toward some new horizon.

Momentum. Evolution. Expansion. Those are important traits for a critically-acclaimed group that recently celebrated its 15-year anniversary. "When you've been a band for as long as we have, there's a lot of moving on," says Thomas Johnson. "We just keep going, because that's how you keep things fresh. That's how you keep the spark." By matching the sharply-written songs of three distinct frontmen with a progressive mix of rock & roll, electrified folk, and cosmic American roots music, Futurebirds have built an audience that's as wide as the band's own sound. With Easy Company, Futurebirds' fifth studio album, that sound reaches a new peak.

Also featuring:

• Deloyd Elze (Country)

  Deloyd Elze, aka Jacob Henry Allen, is a genre-blending country artist from Jacksonville, Florida, whose music fuses traditional American songwriting with cutting-edge electronic elements. Over the past decade, he’s been tinkering with unique soundscapes that combine twangy guitars, lo-fi drums, dissonant synths and rich acoustic textures.