Radio Flyer

What’s that progression at the heart of Wagon Christ’s “Saddic Gladdic,” underneath all those squawking vintage synths (including, if I’m not mistaken, an ARP ProSoloist, which I used to play myself)? The same chords that anchored “Am I The Same Girl?”, the (other) big hit by Swing Out Sister. Wagon Christ mainman Luke Vibert is always good for a grin—Stop The Panic, his collaboration with BJ Cole, would be a perfect party album, if I could only find the right kind of party—and I was certainly grinning as I sang that indelible horn line: sol sa la ti ti, ti ti ti, sol la ti do do, do do do... Just brazen, and joyous in its shamelessness.