Coffee Project (featuring Buddy Schaub of Less Than Jake) recall the best of alternative acoustic punk music and country, toeing the line somewhere between The Avett Brothers and Defiance, Ohio.

On Moved On, packed in two minutes at a time, are small stories of redemption, loss, love, friendship, and rebirth in Gainesville — as well as drinking to forget. Universal themes of indirection and confusion while trying eke out an existence below the radar define the album. But lighter fare is an undercurrent throughout, and a flood in songs like “Oh Sweet Pickle” (a touching letter-as-song to a pet dog: “I just want you to know you’re my best friend in the whole world… you can scratch my couch straight to hell as long as you’ll stay by side”). Horns and back-up vocals accompany the straight-forward lyrics and bare-bones aesthetic, music without million mile mixing boards and million-dollar producers.

At 19 tracks, the songs tend to bleed into each other; the tongue-in-cheek single, “This Is The Sound of Me Getting Over You in Two or Three Chords,” embodies the album at large: quick, to-the-point, anthemic, and simple. Lead singer (and half the band), Jake Crown belts each song with an urgency and vigor that is palpable and enticing; the lack of pretense, or ego is immediately obvious. Ultimately, Moved On is a one-trick pony, but a good one; a fast stomp through acoustic-punk at its most stripped and direct and happy.

(Paper + Plastic Records, PO Box 12081, Gainesville, FL 32604)