Ukuleles don’t always get their fair measure of respect. But that doesn’t stop the New York-based band Songs from a Random House from using two ukuleles to create an unconventional pop-music sound.

The band was founded in the mid-1980s by singer/songwriter Steven Swartz and Alan Drogin. Swartz plays the baritone ukulele — deepest in register of all the ukuleles, which Swartz notes “is very much like saying it’s the tallest dwarf.”