I’m getting the urge to polka. At least I hope it is a polka because I don’t dance and my recollection of terpsichorean style and form might well be defective. Life being what it is and with the spinning vinyl disc being the instrument of good, my feet tapped uncontrollably under the influence of vodka and the boy girl harmonies as The Thornbills (Jim Wiegand and Tamara Finlay) took the Baltic traditional and turned it into a song called “Uncle Andrei”. A swirling, if well mannered, dervish of a tune it is too as it does the perfectly timed stagger to its too soon finish (just like that top chap Jason Webley would do in the same circumstances).
“Square Peg” takes a more conventional neo pop approach a bit like Nancy Sinatra in her Lee Hazelwood influenced reflective moments. Just a bit offbeat but not so much as to scare your aged auntie yet classy all the same and too good to be a mere flipside.
Released on Jack White’s Third Man label which is fast getting to be a mark of quality.