Occupying the same torn-and-frayed space of “alt-country” as Wilco, Austin’s The Come Latelys specialize in the sort of emotions most folks try to drown in the bottle. Instead, the local quintet sets them to music on its recent debut EP, Essential—a name that, along with its faux-“vintage album” cover, suggests the sort of AOR ambitions contained within—surrounding Michael Harmeier’s perpetually wounded vocals with soothing licks of piano and organ. Opener Deadman, led by recent Austin transplant Steven Collins, couches its spooky, somber folk in swirls of shoegaze textures, while The Astronaut Suit follows the smacked-out blues blueprint of groups like Spiritualized.