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The Moles - On The Street / Rare & Weird (2003) [WTR-022]

The Moles - On The Street / Rare & Weird (2003) [WTR-022]

The Moles - On The Street / Rare & Weird (2003) [WTR-022]
Indie | 2CD | EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Scans | %3 REC | 36.6MB + 174Mb/172Mb + 107Mb/104Mb
Publisher: (Wishing Tree Records) Revolver (USA) | Language: English


The Velvet Underground, the Clean, and the Go-Betweens come together in Richard Davies' mysterious art pop group the Moles. On the Street is a collection of psychedelic chamber pop culled from the album Untune the Sky and double-sided 7" What's the New Mary Jane?, in addition to including previously unreleased tracks. During the early '90s, the Moles were lost amidst the angst and aggression of grunge, but this repackaged set could find the band a new audience among fans of Belle & Sebastian and aficionados of the seminal, but underappreciated, Sarah Records indie sound (the Field Mice, Even As We Speak, Tramway, Saint Christopher). Like the Velvets, Davies' strength comes from his ability to take saccharine hooks and catchy melodies and turn them into the weirdest and moodiest dark-of-night pop tunes. Take, for example, the plodding, shimmering "Lonely Hearts Get What They Deserve," the damaged beyond recognition (but beautifully titled) interlude "Let's Hook Up and Get Some," or the buzzing Loveless feedback and noise of the otherwise charmingly narcoleptic "Wires." The bonus disc, aptly entitled Rare & Weird, showcases some real gems, including an early Kinks-esque version of the infectious "Bury Me Happy," the gritty country-punk of "Flex" (think the Minutemen covering the Beach Boys) – maybe the best, and at least the most strikingly original track on either CD – and "We Need an Electric Guitar," reminiscent of none other than the amazingTelevision Personalities. Then there are some real oddities: the Joy Division-sounding "Surf's Up" and "Europe by Car" (Kraftwerk recast as a loose, '60s rock outfit). Rare and weird indeed, but well worth the trouble. ~ Charles Spano (allmusic)

Both On the Street and Rare and Weird contain more than enough solid material to make me wonder why I’d never heard of The Moles in the first place. Yeah, the concept of combining art-rock aspects with garage pop seems scary, but The Moles made it work and then some. It’s a damned shame I had to find out about this band 11 years after its last hurrah. Recommended. ~ gblackwell (DOA For The Love of Music)

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The Moles - On The Street / Rare & Weird (2003) [WTR-022]


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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

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The Moles / On The Street

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Tracklist: The Moles - On The Street

01. What's the New Mary Jane 4:16
02. This is a Happy Garden 4:38
03. Bury Me Happy 3:04
04. Curdle 3:47
05. Lonely Hearts Get What They Deserve 5:48
06. Let's Hook Up and Get Some 2:14
07. Wires 3:22
08. Crown Souls 4:12
09. Accidental Saint 3:56
10. Saint Jack 2:53
11. Tendrils and Paracetamol 6:29
12. Breathe Me In 4:18

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The Moles - On The Street / Rare & Weird (2003) [WTR-022]


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Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 5 from 4. May 2009

EAC extraction logfile from 20. April 2013, 1:36

The Moles / Rare & Weird

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Read mode : Secure
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Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Installed external ASPI interface

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 128 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : No
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy-PreBeta 5\Flac\flac.exe
Additional command line options : -V -8 -T "artist=%a" -T "title=%t" -T "album=%g" -T "date=%y" -T "tracknumber=%n" -T "genre=%m" %s


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End of status report


Tracklist: The Moles - Rare & Weird

01. Bury Me Happy [early version] 3:08
02. Flex [live 2RES Radio, Paddington] 3:04
03. Drink Talking 4:35
04. With Body Wifes Seven Days 3:56
05. Untune the Sky 2:46
06. Surf's Up 4:05
07. Europe by Car 3:05
08. We Need an Electric Guitar [live 2RES Radio, Paddington] 3:41
09. Mystery Song 2:25

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Scans:


AudioPlayer-320x-Squared.jpg - 50 KB
AudioPlayer-640x-Squared.jpg - 289 KB
Folder.jpg - 289 KB
WTR-022-CD-ON_THE_STREET-1600x.jpg - 2206 KB
WTR-022-CD-RARE_AND_WEIRD-1600x.jpg - 2462 KB
WTR-022-Front-1600x.jpg - 5025 KB
WTR-022-Front-Inner-Left-1600x.jpg - 5758 KB
WTR-022-Front-Inner-Middle-1600x.jpg - 5688 KB
WTR-022-Front-Inner-Right-1600x.jpg - 5415 KB
WTR-022-Front-Rear-1600x.jpg - 3166 KB
WTR-022-Front-Rear-Inner-Fold-1600x.jpg - 3217 KB
WTR-022-Rear-1600x.jpg - 3177 KB
WTR-022-Tray-1600x.jpg - 3177 KB




On The Street Part 1: ge.tt | bayfiles | turbobit | bitshare


On The Street Part 2: ge.tt | bayfiles | turbobit | bitshare


Rare & Weird Part 1: ge.tt | bayfiles | turbobit | bitshare


Rare & Weird Part 2: ziddu | bayfiles | turbobit | bitshare