The Tontons

Jessica Grieves

The Tontons ponder what's on the horizon.

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With Little Joe Washington, Fat Tony and Giant Princess, 6 p.m. Saturday, July 25, at Caroline Collective, 4820 Caroline, carolinecollective.cc.

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It's only a matter of time before everyone in Houston will have an "I knew them when" story about the Tontons. Now that the local indie-rock quartet is releasing its first full-length CD, The Tontons, the clock is ticking. The term "breakout potential" gets thrown around all too easily — especially around here, where the scene sometimes seems downright desperate for validation from beyond the Loop — but the Tontons absolutely have the talent and charisma to be somebody's Next Big Thing. Singer Asli Omar is a big, big voice in a tiny package and a dynamic front woman who seizes her audience's attention (and affection) and doesn't let up. The three guys behind her, meanwhile, etch out carefully wrought musical canvases of everything from hard-edged psychedelic blues-rock to carnivalesque waltzes to simmering ballads — which, if you close your eyes, you'd swear it was Billie Holliday singing. Saturday's CD release at Caroline Collective is the Tontons' first step in a journey that will take them who knows where, destined to be one of those "I was there" moments for the band's growing circle of fans.