AUSTIN GRADUATES

The two main attractions at the Anticlub on Saturday were both graduates of the Austin, Tex., music scene, but the avant-rock quartet Glass Eye and singer Lucinda Williams proved they had only that city in common.

With its jagged guitar, sliding bass and sparse keyboards and drums, Glass Eye came off like a determined quartet of math-rock minimalists, its choppy syncopation forming odd musical angles with wide-open spaces. This co-ed quartet’s funkified future-rock may be too deliberate in its calculations. But at least this is one new group that doesn’t want to sound like R.E.M.

Lucinda Williams (now based here after residencies in New Orleans and Austin) takes a conventional acoustic approach that seemed a bit of an anomaly in the experimental-oriented Anticlub. But her beautifully sung renditions of classic blues, traditional country tunes and folkish originals proved talent and craft are welcome in any setting.