First impressions of area album releases Artist: Moving Atlas, a KDGE-friendly band from Dallas.

CD: The Elephant Gun EP.

Details: This is the band's first release since full-length debut Et Al in 2006.

How it sounds: These dudes obviously love the modern-rock styles of Incubus, Tool and System of a Down. You can tell from the songs on this EP that they're trying hard to attain the popularity of those bands without completely copying them (and that's good). There are a few solid original songs here, and singer Dunagin Gaines' emotive vocals help a WTF cover of Sade's "No Ordinary Love" sound surprisingly not-crappy.

Best enjoyed while: Getting your mood-altering drug prescriptions filled, seducing a rock chick or [groan alert] moving your atlases from one bookshelf to another.

Key tracks: Opening track "Parachute," "Elephant Gun" and "How We're Infected" are scream-a-licious enough to please your scary little brother with the black fingernails, yet pop-radio-ready enough for closet Daughtry fans (we know who we are). But "No Ordinary Love" has the best chance of putting Moving Atlas on the charts.

Buy it: On iTunes or at the band's Web site, myspace.com/ movingatlas.

Hunter Hauk

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