From AccessAtlanta March 26th 2008 Issue by Shane Harrison Silent Kids' slow evolution IT'S BEEN MORE than five years since the appearance of Silent Kids' debut album, "Tomorrow Waits." Earlier this week, the band delivered its second album, "Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds," and they'll celebrate the long-awaited disc with a release show at the EARL. The ever-evolving Atlanta band is still based around songwriters, guitarists and vocalists Michael Oakley and Jeff Holt. As for the oft-changing personnel that surrounds the band's core members, Oakley says, "Other people kind of come and go as they please. It's always been me and Jeff, though, and we write the songs, so I don't think the sound changes that much with different people in it." That sound combines bits and pieces of some of rock's coolest bands, from the Velvet Underground to My Bloody Valentine, with traces of psychedelia and a ramshackle pop charm. Like its predecessor, "Dinosaurs Turn Into Birds" is being released by Atlanta-based Two Sheds Music. Go to the label's online home (www.twoshedsmusic.com), and you'll see a list of all the things that have transpired since the previous album, including all the members who have come and gone. "We just took a long time writing songs," says Oakley. "It wasn't like we spent five years recording. It only took two weeks to make the record. It just took awhile to get all the songs together." And what's with the evolutionary album title? "I read this article in some magazine about how aliens seeing planet Earth through a telescope, since light travels so slowly, would see dinosaurs walking around and they could see evolution happen," Oakley says. Speaking of the past, the album cover includes a blue-labeled cassette with the words "Stockholm's Waiting" written on it. "The first thing we ever put out was an EP that's now out of print," Oakley says, "and that was the first song we ever recorded. We still play that song in our set." Luigi, also on the bill for the March 28 EARL show, includes both original Silent Kids drummer Scott Rowe and, in recent months, Jeff Holt. Though no one will say definitively that this is Luigi's last show ever, "it will be the last for a very very long while," according to a statement on the band's Web site. The Preakness, which completes the lineup, includes former Silent Kid Tracy Clark.