Lola Kirke

★★ Lady For Sale THIRD MAN. CD/DL/LP

Have you been waiting for ’80s-inspired country disco? A rather odd second offering from British/American actress/musician Lola Kirke (daughter of Free drummer

Simon Kirke). On one hand, there are well written songs here, served up on a bed of country tunes via Jack White’s rarefied, obsessively aesthetic Third Man label. But then there’s the cheap, digitised sound, with all the charm of a Hallmark Country Christmas album dropping an ’80s home organ down the stairs at Nashville airport. The weird thing is that Kirke’s stated intention is to fuse country and disco into a party no one would want to miss, so it’s supposed to sound the way it does. Admittedly, new genres are created by introducing styles that have never previously crossed paths, but sometimes they should be kept locked in their own dressing rooms for fear they’ll be a bad influence on each other.