It starts with "Elementary, My Dear", which runs through the 2x table, using Noah's Ark as a departure point. Interestingly, the whole "two of every animal" thing is not what it says in the Bible. Not that I care. But the text is something like, "Take with you seven pairs of all clean animals, the male and his mate, and a pair of the animals that are not clean, the male and his mate, and seven pairs of the birds of the heavens also, male and female, to keep their offspring alive on the face of all the earth"

So there are going to be 14 each of all the clean animals, whatever they are, and then pairs of the not clean animals, whatever they are. If I had even the slightest interest in the subject, I would have spent another five seconds online to find out what that means.

But it's a cheerful and engaging song with Dorough singing about what amounts you get if you multiply various numbers by two. It's not really great musically but it's okay.

Much better is "Three Is a Magic Number", though Dorough also mentions "the ancient mystic trinity". I guess that doesn't have to be Christian but coming right after the Noah's Ark thing, it's easy to make the connection. He also mentions "past, present and future", though, and triangles having three corners and three sides. This song has a better groove and there's an agreeably laidback feel to Dorough's vocal performance. Drummer swings, too.

Martial snare playing starts out "The Four Legged Zoo" but it's not clear why. After that brief intro it swings into a very sweet and sunny song about llamas and alpacas and all that, four-legged creatures, with a lot of the singing being done by a children's chorus.

For "Ready or Not, Here I Come", Dorough sets up a game of hide and seek, with him counting to a hundred by fives. The band plays with more urgency and a bit of an edge, which is a nice contrast.

"My Hero, Zero" is maybe the best tune, great groove, excellent Fender Rhodes playing, really cool melody and absolutely charming lyrics about the usefulness of zero.

A rock/pop/soul feel with a touch of acid should make you want to moce to "I Got Six", which gets Grady Tate on the vocals.

Then Dorough is back with the country dance number "Lucky Seven Sampson", which features the fiddle and runs through the 7 times table.

The wonderful Blossom Dearie then shows up to tackle "Figure Eight", which has a hauntingly lovely "Windmills of Your Mind" quality to it. This was covered by Elliott Smith!

Things get real soulful again with the slow, bluesy, 6/8 "Naughty Number Nine", with the fantastic Grady Tate returning for singing duty again.

"The Good Eleven" brings a friendly country-rock atmosphere: "Eleven has always been a friend of mine".

And then finally there's the kind of unsettling, acidy-rock/pop of "Little Twelvetoes". Conspiciuous by its absence is the number one. But then we already had "One Is the Loneliest Number".