The template / motif for Player Piano was that it would be "keyboard-based psychedelic girl group songs, a sort of Motown suicide note" and so it is. Largely eschewing modern beats this time in favour of "drums that sound like The Kinks' 60s records", there are still the spaces of modern R'n'B, along with 50s doo wop, krautrock and a couple of nods to Aphex Twin.