{"product_id":"agatha-is-dead-concrete-red-vinyl-lp-copy","title":"Solex - Low Kick and Hard Bop (Vinyl LP)","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRelease Date: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"aec-title-date\"\u003e9\/4\/2026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvailable on vinyl for the first time EVER: Solex and Matador Records celebrate 25 years of 'Low Kick and Hard Bop' this September.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSolex is the pseudonym of singer-songwriter and former Amsterdam record store owner Elisabeth Esselink, who came up with a deft blend of low-key techno and 'found sounds.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Solex Versus The Hitmeister' (1998) was her debut album for Matador and was composed using snippets from crappy, unsellable CDs. In a change of tack, 'Pick Up' (1999) was constructed from dozens of recordings that Esselink had secretly made during the gigs of local bands in Amsterdam. It can be considered a variant of a live-album. This extraordinary technique culminates on 'Low Kick And Hard Bop' (2001), where she sourced material from old vinyl, television, the better-looking talk show hosts, films, bootlegs, radio, street noises, and animals.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThroughout that time, Solex kept great company, performing with my bloody valentine, Cibo Matto, Yo La Tengo, and The Notwist. She has remixed Grizzly Bear, Wire and St. Vincent, and has collaborated with Mike Watt. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"15 songs built out of a dizzying array of elements: a Nancy Sinatra bassline slips by; elsewhere there is a kind of exuberance you thought went out of fashion with The B-52s... \"Comely Row\" and \"Have You No Shame, Girl?\" have an echo of surf punk or classic 60s girl groups... even The Slits. Solex's multitracked voice produces a buoyant presence that floats the entire album. With such references there is a collapse of time inherent in her process. And yet, paradoxically, Low Kick could be of no other time than now... Low Kick is a reflex action in the groin of the Prog rock tendencies of anyone who forgets what a studio's for.\" - Louise Gray, The Wire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cu\u003eTRACKS:\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e Low Kick and Hard Bop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e Mere Imposters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e Have You No Shame, Girl?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e Not a Hoot!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e Knee-High\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e Honey (Amsterdam Is Not L.A.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e Shoot Shoot!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e Comely Row\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e9\u003c\/span\u003e Ease Up You Fundamentalists!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e The Dot on the I Between the H and the T\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e11\u003c\/span\u003e Good Comrades Go to Heaven\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e12\u003c\/span\u003e Cayenne\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e13\u003c\/span\u003e Ololo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e14\u003c\/span\u003e You Say Potato, I Say Aardappel!\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e15\u003c\/span\u003e Look... 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