If that’s not what you were thinking about, what about the music felt Crowded House-ish? The way Nick plays bass. It’s quite characterful; I hadn’t really realized it until we started recording together, but he kind of gets things wrong in a really cool way. He works every note and every fill of every part. It excited me, and I thought that it sounded like a band. Also the nature of the way we recorded with Ethan, who’s very much into people playing live on the floor. We overdubbed, and we certainly used modern technology, but the approach toward recording was very much along band lines as well. It has an element of performance about it at every level, I think.

An element of spontaneity. Right. You can make things sound beautiful in a recording, but to give them the amount of spark that you need is a tricky thing.