What happens when a jazz band listens to a lot of Jethro Tull...

After about three years of having "Roscoe" as an earworm that continues to pop up pretty regularly on Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM, I finally got The Trials Of Van Occupanther this past weekend. Apparently the explanation really is that Midlake started as a jazz band, but then got heavily into Tull and Radiohead. I can hear it, actually.

"Roscoe":