Hi Ray!
I love the quirky feel of this song, with a style that we don’t hear a lot of these days - firstly swing, and those rhythm guitar ‘snaps’. It reminded me (in style and quirkiness only) of Mental As Anything’s ‘Let’s cook’, there is even a bit of Martin Plaza in Steve’s vocal. The lyrics and metre are full of short phrases or one word statements, and dare I say that is almost a signature of yours - at least from what I have heard so far.

My ears need something more to underpin the harmonics of the song - I think this is because there are some different chord changes outside of the diatonic, the prominent short guitar chords, and Steve’s vocal delivery has drop-offs in the last note of each phrase. I thought I could hear a guitar underneath that if the volume of it was brought up would give more harmonic support - at least this is what my ears are hearing, and my own preference. But how it is may be what you are looking for.

This took me back to an era of music that I loved and miss very much - Mentals, Split Enz, Madness … Loved it!

Andrew

Regards,
Andrew D
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