Flashbacks And Dream Sequences: The Story Of The Moles

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1.	Wires 03:21
2.	Accidental Saint 03:57
3.	Rich Man 03:32
4.	Curdle 03:42
5.	Surf's Up 04:05
6.	Europe By Car 03:35
7.	Bury Me Happy 03:03
8.	Nailing Jesus To The Cross 03:59
9.	Minor Royal March 02:44	buy track
10.	Eros Lunch (1963) 01:53
11.	Already In Black 02:16
12.	Instinct 01:42
13.	Cars For King's Cross 02:44
14.	Cassie Peek 03:25
15.	Raymond, Did You See The Red Queen? 03:34
16.	Treble Metal 01:58
17.	The Crasher 03:30
18.	Tendrils and Paracetamol 06:41
19.	This Is A Happy Garden 04:56
20.	Breathe Me In 04:32
21.	Lonely Hearts Get What They Deserve 05:52
22.	What's the New Mary Jane 04:15
23.	Going Down 02:26
24.	St. Jack 03:04
25.	Let's Hook Up and Get Some 03:42
26.	Propeller 03:19
27.	With Body Wifes Seven Days 03:56
28.	The Crown Souls 05:12
29.	Rebecca 04:20
30.	Rich Man (Original Mix) 03:32
31.	Drink Talking 04:34
32.	Bury Me Happy (Early Version) 03:08
33.	Flex 03:04
34.	We Need An Electric Guitar 03:40
35.	Mystery Song 02:25

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An exclusive release for Record Store Day 2014. This title may be available on sale one week after the event on Monday 28th April, dependant on availability.

Presenting the first comprehensive collection of the entire recorded output of Australian underground legends The Moles. Led by future orchestral pop genius Richard Davies, the band quickly grew from their garage and psych roots to travel to London and then New York City and forge a unique path. Often cited as the band that pushed The Flaming Lips into the giants we know today, it was a star meant to burn brightly, and then no more. Includes their only two full albums Untune The Sky and Instinct in their original tracklistings, and everything in-between.

The Moles formed in Sydney in the late 80s by Glenn Fredericks, Richard Davies, Warren Armstrong and Carl Zadro, friends from law school who were fans of Flying Nun, The Fall, Go-Betweens and Laughing Clowns/Ed Kuepper. They dabbled with punk experimentality and regular reinvention, drawing their name from a reference to Wind in the Willows and spy novels (John Le Carré/Graham Greene).

Untune the Sky was originally recorded as a mini-album in a dingy studio in Sydney, although once they had found a label, Seaside (an offshoot of Waterfront, one of Sydney's legendary indie labels) they returned to the studio to extend it in to a full length.

They soon felt that their future in Sydney was limited and set sail for London via New York. In NYC they recorded an EP at a seedy studio in the Meat Packing District with prostitutes standing out front, run by legendary producer/engineer Jim Waters, who had worked with Lou Reed, Thurston Moore and Nancy Sinatra. Being Beatles fans, they knew of "What's The News Mary Jane" as a lost Beatles track but hadn't heard it, so they recorded what they thought it might sound like.

Taking themselves out of their regular surroundings in Sydney accelerated and amplified the mood for recording but they were disorientated by the chaos of New York. Their subsequent London adventure lasted a year, during which they played some great gigs and had some great adventures, including recording a Peel Session (which went well until their manager stole all of the band's fee and blew it all on a personal drug/sex/dance odyssey weekend - to which the band were not invited.)

The Moles original line-up split in 1994 after homesickness took hold and the band imploded. Davies had found love and moved to the States but was not quite finished with the directions he had explored with The Moles. Full of songs from the London stay, the others blessed his intentions to capture them properly. Assembling a fantastic room full of players including Hamish Kilgour of The Clean, the resulting album Instinct managed to bridge his punk roots with the complex and influential arrangements he would soon perfect.

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released April 19, 2014

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The Moles Sydney, Australia

Brain-child of one Richard Davies, The Moles were an Australian chamber-pop band, who broke up in 1993, only for Davies to use the Moles monicker for the release of what was effectively his solo debut album "Instinct".

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