The Head, Alex Lotito, Your Ex's Pets

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Saturday, October 3rd at Drunken Unicorn Nobody’s Booking presents… The Head, Alex Lotito, Your Ex’s Pets Doors at 8:00pm / $15 / 21+ GET TICKETS The Head have been making music together since high school, writing and performing original songs inspired by the bands they love: trippy Brits like The Stone Roses, Spiritualized, Ride, The Verve and Echo and the Bunnymen, and moody Americans like The National, Scott Walker and early R.E.M. Alex Lotito wants you to feel something. A fixture of Atlanta's indie music scene, the introspective singer/songwriter has been recording and performing his bruising, cerebral brand of folk rock since he was a teenager strumming cowboy chords at Maddy's rib shack. Lotito is an Atlanta musician as few are. Raised blocks from the Variety Playhouse and mentored by bluesman Chicago Joe Jones, Lotito honed his craft on Atlanta's barbecue circuit, and his music melds the wisdom and wit of the blues tradition with the pedal steel pathos of indie's country/folk revival. You can hear both on "Mechanical Heart," the title track of Lotito's 2022 album. Listening to Mechanical Heart is like flipping through an album of stray photos—a tattooed shoulder here, a smoke cloud there—and sensing, as Lotito sings in "Smolders," that "something still ain't right." Whatever that something is, it ain't the music. Lotito’s guitar playing shines. His syncopated vocal melodies gambol across soundscapes dripping with tremolo and heartache. An English teacher at Druid Hills High School, Lotito knows what good poetry sounds like. His lyrics are frequently devastating. "Things we used to think were something / linger still and now mean nothing," Lotito keens on "It's Trivial," a languorous, horn-filled track on his new EP. The new EP, Lotito's most polished yet, has much to say about how the past haunts the present. Lotito asks listeners to reflect on roads not taken, on the small choices that sum up to a life. "You wanted to stay / I wanted to move," he…