Fans of Samiam, Hot Water Music, Embrace and the like—this is a new band for you. Not exactly in my wheelhouse, so I hesitate to pass any judgment on the quality or originality of the music itself. I will say that the vocalist leans on a delivery style that doesn’t vary a whole lot from verse to verse or song to song, and the recording is a little too stale and clean, but those are my only (minor) complaints. Overall, this sounds like something worth checking out if you dig this band’s aforementioned spiritual predecessors. –Chad Williams (Not Like You, notlikeyourecords.com / Division Street Sounds, divisionstreetsounds.limitedrun.com)