This fresh-faced Lafayette quartet proudly announces on their CD cover that the disc was “recorded entirely on analogue tape.” And the warm organic sound of the production is clearly a plus, since this is the kind of music that any major-label producer would saddle with whomping digital drums and processed guitar sounds. But despite the band’s obvious spirit, they’re too close to the commercial post-grunge sound that bands like Creed and Stone Temple Pilots ran into the ground years ago. It works fine on the opening “This Machine,” where lead singer River Gibson’s gripes with social injustice draw suitable fury from the band. But things get samey over six tracks, especially since Gibson is front and center for nearly all of it; half the songs end with him shouting unaccompanied. Nor are they helped by the occasional clunky lyric (“Like a fire in the night, you came to satisfy”—Anybody really gotten satisfied by one of those?) The closing “See the Light” shakes their formula up a bit, with a lead acoustic guitar and slow-building arrangement, and suggests they might eventually hit on something more their own.