So here’s a cover song that didn’t make the Covers in May list because I didn’t find it until halfway through May. Solex is a personal favourite of mine; Solex vs. the Hitmeister wasn’t the greatest album in the world, but its cut’n'paste aesthetic and childlike wonder are addictive. It’s unlikely you’ll ever hear anyone else do a song like “Solex All Licketysplit”; it’s territory Solex seems to have mostly to herself. Which was why her latest album, The Laughing Stock of Indie Rock, was such a downer: too many downtempo moments and wankish keyboard effects, not enough of that classic Solex exuberance and joy.

No such problem with this one-off for the tribute album of Pavement covers, Everything Is Ending Here. Solex’s version of Shady Lane, likely commissioned because of her prior association with Matador, is a good bet for most divisive song on the CD. This is Solex at her most spectacular heights of glitchy arrhythmic girlishness, and you’ll either think it’s amazing or horrific. Released around the time of Solex’s last Matador album, Low Kick and Hard Bop, it’s also a great example from Solex’s most successful period; Low Kick and Hard Bop was a fantastic mixture of old-school vintage vinyl samples and the off-kilter live instrumentation that started creeping in with 1999’s Pick Up. If you like “Shady Lane” and haven’t heard anything else from Solex, Low Kick is a good place to start.