"The muse," "inspiration," "schtick": call it as you like it, but you'll know it when you see it. The Junior Boys let on that they're buying into the whole mythos & selling it, too, when they get to "Under the Sun," which is the song you'll refer to as "Sweet One." Like every song on Last Exit - I repeat: like every song on Last Exit - it's an emotionally charged text, garden-variety spooky on first listen, but increasingly sexual the second and third times through. By the time you've arrived at real familiarity with "Under the Sun," its luxuriantly sad underbelly is showing; the song is like a wounded creature rolling over on its back, gesturing absently in the general direction of the wound you left on its body without even meaning to do so. Whoosh-whooshy minor keyboard chords and muted-electric-guitar emulation patches sketch a setting that's ominous from one angle, seductive from another, and permanently out of reach no matter how you look at it. The experience is remarkably rich. And what are the lyrics, then?

Sweet one
Sweet one
Under the sun