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 | | The titles are simple: "Waking Up With Solex," "When Solex Stood There," "There's a Solex on the Run," etc. The titles may seem diary-ish on the surface, but the lyrics boast a humor and a poetic sense that is anything but throwaway. |
 | | In "Rolex By Solex," over a breakbeat and a strategically wielded, cool and aloof guitar line, Solex breaks in with, "He gave a coy smile when/she/ paid for/two rooms and one connecting/door. |
 | | Later, the clandestine vibe they've so worked for is undermined by the echoing beat-fadeout chimed over with the postscript, "she made a crack/about his fatness/ and his hairy back." It's a sneaky way of making the everyday sublime and vice versa. |
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