If there’s anyone who couldd be said at all to be working Solex’s side of the street, it’s probably Krista Muir. Muir’s particular trade, aside from making music, is trying on new characters. She’s not quite David Bowie, but one of her personas did catch on with club audiences—a crazy German lederhosen fashion designer. That woman’s name is Lederhosen Lucil.

With a fondness for the accordion and bizarre keyboard effects, Lucil is nothing if not kitschy herself. And she bears a resemblance to Solex mainly because the two of them play kitschy keyboardish pop. But Lucil is her own woman; go to a Lederhosen Lucil show and you’ll get the whole German-licious package, right down to the fake accented English and the weird lederhosen costume. It helps that the music is strangely catchy, even though the first track of Hosemusik bears an uncomfortable resemblance to circus music.

It’s the less bizarre tracks that leave the lasting impact—although we are talking about a woman who plays the accordion in a full lederhosen get-up at her shows, so “less bizarre” should be taken to mean “still pretty bizarre.” All in all, it’s a great trip, and the enthusiasm is evident. Will Muir ever get tired of playing Lucil? She doesn’t know, but she’s prepared to run the lederhosen thing into the ground to find out.