Green on Red is the latest band to emerge from the Paisley Underground – the loose collective of like-minded musicians who in the past year have filled L.A. clubs with various brands of Sixties-style garage psychedelia. Gravity Talks, Green on Red's debut album, is full of Doors-like keyboard passages, rambling tunes and dollops of feedback. But, above all, the record is a toast to the...

'No Free Lunch' opens with "Keep On Moving," the tale of yet another U.S. male on the road, lighting out for a wilderness free from all emotional connections. What rescues this tune from total immersion in the American myth of the romantic outsider is singer Dan Stuart's gritty willingness to explore the underside of that myth. "Me, I gotta keep on movin'," he brays at the top of the chorus,...