Imagine Jeff Buckley fronting a hard-rocking, groove-oriented alternative band (perhaps Phish meets the Foo Fighters?), and you’ve got local rockers Ellipsis. Lead singer/guitarist Craig Paddock evokes Buckley’s soul in his expressive voice, easily the best aspect of the band and the best thing on One Course Current, their second album. But the entire band plays with the kind of soul that belies their youth and makes them sound like seasoned veterans of rock’s glory days. (According to their web site, the oldest member is only 22 years old.) The members of Ellipsis consider the band “psychedelic,” and despite One Course Current’s trippy cover art, the sound here hardly ever trails off on LSD-induced tangents. Paddock and lead guitarist John Michael Rouchell’s playing, while excellent, never falls into endless soloing drenched in effects. In fact, on the record Ellipsis comes off as one of the most solid sets of musicians on the local rock scene. None of the songs would be worth a listen if Ellipsis did not play well together as a band, and they do throughout One Course Current. Throw Paddock’s sharp lyrics into the mix, especially the mixed love letter/hate mail to the scene “Hiptown” and the positive “Fool’s Gold,” and you’ve got a release that’s hard not to like.