New Moles Album?

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Did this come up here, or is it so bad as to be not worth discussing? There's apparently a remastered Moles compilation that includes a bonus disc of rarities (also available separately on vinyl). Info is at http://www.wishingtreerecords.com/home.shtml. I guess the Gern Blandsten deal fell through.

It's funny, while reading about it on the website, I saw that R. Davies is back in the studio recording with Dave Auchenbach as producer, and then they have parentheses that say "(Lightning Bolt, Wheat)" and I nearly died while trying to imagine the ex-Small Factory tweester as a member of Lightning Bolt, and was only saved when I realized that he must have produced or engineered their album. Close call.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

is there anything on this new release that wasn't on the Flydaddy reish of Untune the sky? bcuz that's pretty much all the Moles i need

(i'm not a fan of Instinct, it has none of the flying nun-isms of their wonderful earlier stuff and little of the grace of the Cardinal album or RD's first solo joint)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's the track list. I like Instinct a whole lot, but it's kind of unrelated to what came before (and after).

The Moles
On the Street
(CD 1) Re-issue

1. What's the New Mary Jane
2. This is a Happy Garden
3. Bury Me Happy
4. Curdle
5. Lonely Hearts Get What They Deserve
6. Let's Hook Up and Get Some
7. Wires
8. Crown Souls
9. Accidental Saint
10. Saint Jack
11. Tendrils and Paracetamol
12. Breathe Me In

Rare and Weird
(CD 2) unreleased bonus tracks
1. Bury Me Happy (early version)
2. Flex
3. Drink Talking
4. With Body Wifes Seven Days
5. Untune The Sky
6. Surf's Up
7. Europe By Car
8. We Need an Electric Guitar.
9. Mystery Song

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:42 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. whilst the Flydaddy reissue does have most of that, the idea of early unreleased stuff is very interesting to me, plus it'd be nice to have "drink talking" on CD

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

instinct is fantastic. it was great when every record he released was odd in it's own way. then he released telegraph, ugh, and then barbarians UGH! i hope he's gone back to lawyering by now.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:50 (twenty-one years ago)

According to the website, he's working on a new record. I hope it's better than Barbarians.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Any Moles reissue is cause for celebration, but it's shocking that "PROPELLOR" IS STILL NOT ON CD! And they picked the awful b-side "Withbody Wife's...", probably the only song by the Moles I don't absolutely worship.
I wish there was a comp that collected the various versions of the tracks, ie. the pre-mersh and post-mersh "Europe By Car" and "Curdle" etc.. (Many differences between 'Untune the Sky' LP and CD on Seaside.)
Not to mention these mysterious tracks on cassette fanzines that people tell me about...
I'm VERY pro-"Instinct", the more time passes the more it becomes my favourite Davies record. I still think "Barbarians" had some beautiful songs on it.
(Oh PS to 'the surface noise', Wishing Tree are doing an LP which consists of the 'Rare & Weird' tracks only.)

― jwd, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:55 (twenty-one years ago)

woo hoo! yes i'd like "propellor" on cd too, i must dig out my 7" of that one of these days

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i loved how on untune the sky the moles managed to sound like almost every flying nun band at once.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, my copy of this showed up today. At least several of the tracks on disc one are different versions than appear on the Flydaddy CD. Breathe Me In is definitely pretty different, and I think Tendrils and Paracetamol is as well. Does anyone who knows the band's old discography well have the new CD yet? The liner notes don't help much with IDing the variations.

― dlp9001, Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

twenty-one years pass...

So Robert Pollard just released a new Moles record on his Splendid Research label (looks like digitally covered by Fire Records) and it's really good!

https://themolesmusic.bandcamp.com/album/composition-book

― better than ezra collective soul asylum (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 11 February 2025 20:37 (three months ago)

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