Sez here singer-guitarist Nyles Lannon keeps several irons in the fire, serving as wing-man in Krayg Burtons shadowy slowcore combo Film School as well as gleeping and beeping with techno vendors Technicolor. But never is he so much himself as when he works under his own given moniker. Lannons 2004 disc Chemical Friends offered up yet another (if fine and viable) entry in the nervously-crowded nick Drake / Elliott Smith pale white-boy sensitive folk-popper sweepstakes, and theres some of that here too (in the best ways). While Pressure delivers a solid supply of dreamy melodic exercises and gossamer-layered vocals, theres also a strong undercurrent of rhythmic muscle and rock-ety spunk that suggests hes not wan, disgruntled ex-dodgeball fodder after all; rather, hes a feisty cat with big ideas that may happen to be purty, but can also bust some windows, too.