The part of me that grew up on Grand Funk Railroad is digging this Baton Rouge power trio’s debut, particularly the parts where they kick out the jams and do old-school power-trio rock without apologies.

“Phoebe” opens this half-hour album with one of those “pay attention now!” type guitar licks, and the rhythm section double-kicking behind Dexter Lee Manuel’s lead vocal and riff-slinging. The chorus of “Love is like a drug”—love, of course, meaning sex—is exactly what this kind of song demands.

The disc’s other full-tilt rocker, “For Your Love” is just as energized and just as hormone-driven (love in this case means even more sex: “Baby you know what I like / just getting’ it tonight”). Yet the remainder of the album takes a more serious tone both musically (the seven-minute title track has a floating Pink Floyd feel), and lyrically: “United Aid” asks who’ll make the crops grow and save the children—questions I’m pretty sure Mark Farner also asked in 1971—and “Ruby Slippers” sets the tale of a girl’s downfall to a somber reggae beat.

There’s even a solo guitar version of “Dixie.” The band pulls off the diversity well enough, but I would’ve thrown in a few more cheapo thrills.