Brian Olive has his roots in the raw, guitar-dominated garage scene that spawned the Black Keys (whose Dan Auerbach co-produced Two of Everything), the White Stripes and two of his own alma maters, the Greenhornes and Soledad Brothers. What sets Olive apart from all of them is that he's not in thrall to the guitar. In the thrusting blues-rock of Back Sliding Soul, the guitar is all but buried beneath rollicking piano and belligerent blasts of saxophone; when it's allowed to surge up for the chorus, the effect is thrilling. Elsewhere, what catches your attention are absurdly overblown keyboard solos (Left Side Rock), a woozy, tethered-sounding flute line (Traveling), and the kind of squiggling, squelchy noises more usually created by drunken enthusiasts of the bagpipes (Strange Attractor). Clearly Olive has idiosyncrasy on his side – making it all the more disappointing that he puts it in the service of retro psychedelia that often comes across as hippy-trippy nonsense.