One track, Martha Sways, injects notes of dissonance – off-kilter violins, random stabs of piano – that will be familiar to fans of Big Star's Sister Lovers.
One version only featured guitar, piano and random flutterings of his own voice.
Instead, what you may have felt is seven minutes of confusion, as you watched random images accompanied by piano renditions of songs from the band's latest album Shields.
It seems kind of silly but many of the best melodies were born from someone just hitting random notes on a piano.
He begins to speak loudly, angrily, hitting random blues riffs on his piano, then slamming down hard and turning to you to speak of the fun he's had and that he might -- and here he is weirdly threatening -- have again.
During spoken sections of this embryonic show, which has a book and lyrics by Sara Cooper, seemingly random notes from a lone piano drift teasingly through the air, hinting at half-forgotten songs but never arranging themselves into a tune you can follow.
You can play a few random white notes on a piano with a nice rhythm and then if you repeat it, you have a tune!" Kirke says on his website, "Written language is far more complex, put a few nice words together and it will often mean nothing".
"James Joint" continues the random musings on drugs and drinking, with jazz piano and befuddled, sexy vocals.
Ferrazzi's piano bar showboating was not a random act of poor judgment.
And in "Work No. 1652 201313), a motor affixed to the back of an upright piano raises and slams the lid at random intervals, causing the strings to resonate.
There's a nice little analog movement in dance music now, with Daft Punk returning to old-school techniques for "Random Access Memories" and classically trained artists like Zedd releasing piano versions of their dance singles.
