The instruments are hand-played: horn sections, twinkling electric piano and wah-wah guitars alongside Brazilian percussion and cavaquinho, the small samba guitar.
The instruments were hand played, and the voices of the headliners were proudly weathered.
Some images, though, are less satisfying, as when the New York skyline is described as "a metal tray of instruments being handed to a doctor".
In both cases, the research instrument was handed out in two parts.
It is made immediately before the scalpel or other instrument is handed to the surgeon to commence the procedure, hence the term "knife check".
Mr. Black, the drummer, and Mr. Sverrisson, the bassist, who arrived at an ingenious, high-improvisation version of Eastern European music in the band Pachora, will play duets with laptop computers, electronics and whatever stringed or skinned instruments are to hand.
Record labels and stylists may conspire to market her as the new Goldfrapp but the enduring image will always be of the single-minded Boots composing in her bedroom with whatever instruments are at hand, using the Stylophone's reedy minimalism to fashion sparse basslines for her liable-to-fall-apart-at-any-minute dance-pop.
These sacred instruments are their hands".
Flags poke out above the terminals, to denote which country's financial instruments are changing hands.
"These instruments are always at hand, and they've been used recently … I don't see why they wouldn't be used again now," she said.
In the middle eight it features a breakdown where the song's usual instruments are replaced with hand claps whilst some of the media reported that Cole's voice had a Whitney Houston-like tone to it.
