Wheel is a frequently banal slice of East Coast bar rock that sounds like it should have come from New Jersey, not Boston; while some of its songs possess a bit of a punk or indie-rock edge, most of them stick with standard rock conventions and suffer heavily for it. Solid songwriting or a sense of humor might have saved some of the record, but neither is particularly present.
Crazy Alice's later attempts at grunge and punk fare a bit better, but only by a small margin.