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- Summary: The indie rock band led by Richard Davies returns with an album of songs recorded on and off over the past 20 years with contributions from such artists as Sebadoh's Bob Fay, Free Time's Dion Nania, Jarvis Taveniere of Woods, and former Sugar member Malcolm Travis.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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UncutAug 12, 2016Tonight's Music finds Davies returning to The Moles' first principals of beguiling deadpan psychedelia, as if Syd Barrett had lit out to New Zealand in the 1980s and joined The Chills. [Sep 2016, p.76]
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Aug 12, 2016It’s a joy to hear an album that embraces dissonance and does not sound desperate for radio play.
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Aug 12, 2016Curious, ramshackle, and unapologetically rough around the edges, the two-disc, 24-track set is more sprawling than it is ambitious, but like everything else that the enigmatic Richard Davies (Moles, Cardinal, Cosmos) lays his hands on, the results are, more often than not, mesmerizing.
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MagnetSep 20, 2016At the core are lyrics abstract enough to keep you coming back and digging for meaning until the next moles record, however many decades off that might be. [No. 135, p.56]
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Sep 16, 2016Tonight’s Music celebrates the space between the excessive and the unfinished, refusing us resolution, promising us a little everything.
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Aug 12, 2016Patience and resolve are required, for there are truly baffling abstractions. ... Yet when Davies knuckles down and crafts glorious, idiosyncratic pop such as Needle & Thread, the slow-burning Chills and vulnerable, Television Personalities-esque Beauty Queen Of Watts, he and his ad hoc Moles can burrow into the very deepest recesses of your heart.
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Feb 23, 2019
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