Squarespace Site Server v5.11.81 (http://www.squarespace.com/)http://www.swimmingpoolqs.com/picture/rolling%20s.jpg?pictureId=164842<span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 1em;">ROLLING STONE </span><br> Out There with David Fricke <br> <br> <span style="font-weight: bold;">THE SWIMMING POOL Q's</span><br> <span style="font-style: italic;">&nbsp;Royal Academy of Reality </span><br> <br> Original New Wave kin of The B-52's and R.E.M., Georgia's Swimming Pool Q's were a brainy pop-art band exploring the deep weirdness of modern Southern life, closer to the Fab Four than to Gang of Four. On The Q's first album since 1989, singer-songwriter Jeff Calder unleashes a backlog of big questions ("What Is Beyond") and bigger dreams ("Light Arriving Soon") in pocket symphonies of silvery guitars and warm-water singing: Abbey Road wrapped in kudzu. "My mind is a cloud," he sings at one point, "and the cloud is loud." That's my kind of reality. </span>