Regular, otherwise known as John F. Kieltyka, can boast one thing for certain: he has enough musical talent to play every instrument on the album himself. But aptitude doesn't always equate to excellence, which is why Regular's eponymous debut LP is a relatively safe, uniformly solid, middle-of-the-road indie album.

Bob Pollard's effortless pop songs come to mind when listening to most of these tracks -- prettily melodic patchworks sewn together with the kind of simple hook that Pollard could hum into existence before putting the milk in his morning coffee. From "Mindreader"'s lazy acoustic-assisted opening to the overdrive guitar-coated fat bass hook on "Parade", each of these songs has a memorable sinew or two. The components are almost uniform: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass, and comfortably understated drumming. An evanescent organ breezes across a few tracks, but revolution isn't the name of the game. Only one track defies the album's generally warm nature: "Orthodox", whose almost-sinister climbing acoustic hook is backed by dark, muted vocals. It eventually flowers into lighter-weight pop, even as it retreats into uncharacteristic darkness.

It's certainly not a sin for Kieltyka to keep his feet firmly on familiar ground; after all, Pollard has been sitting comfortably there for, what -- 295 albums or so? Kieltyka stays with indie-pop, and while it's not overly fresh, it'll have a longer shelf-life than many albums whose ambitions exceed its own humble, manageable goals.