Southeast Engine’s A Wheel Within a Wheel trades barn-burning bravado for small-room intimacy, folding Americana and indie rock into close-miked harmonies and organ-tinged arrangements. Issued on Misra, the record foregrounds narrative lyrics and restrained folk rock rhythms — fingerpicked acoustic lines, steady midtempo grooves and tasteful electric organ — making it a compact, literate set for listeners who favor songwriting over spectacle.