Moles, Cardinal, Cosmos & all things Richard Davie

A tumblr dedicated to the musician career of Richard Davies

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New Moles Track revealed on Rolling Stone toady!

This blog has turned 10 and what better way to celebrate!

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The Moles performing "KBO" live at Austin Jukebox 8 at Beerland

"KBO" by The Moles live at Austin Jukebox #8 at Beerland in Austin on 9/8/17. Richard Davies: "Note the lack of satisfaction and total frust

Among the most fun experiences resulting from the series was not only having The Moles perform live during an Austin Jukebox show, but also getting to know Richard Davies and agreeing to release the next Moles album, the double LP “Code Word” on Super Secret Records.

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Mashing Mole: The Best of Richard Davies [featuring The Moles & Cardinal)

  How to describe the genius that is Richard Davies...? I'll try to keep it brief! I've been a fan of his work ever since picking u

Good article

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RIP Steve 'Thee Slayer Hippy' Hanford whose terrific drum playing was one of the many things that made 'Cardinal' such a magical album

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Nice blogpost about Mr Davies

https://hairybreath.blogspot.com/2020/01/mashing-mole-best-of-richard-davies.html

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Cuts from three of my all-time favorite albums, all relatively ignored then and now.

Dramarama’s Vinyl (1991) - Some people remember their late 80s singles “Anything, Anything” and “Last Cigarette” (both truly great singles), but this disc was as good as pop music got in the early 90s (okay, aside from Matthew Sweet’s “Girlfriend” and anything by Teenage Fanclub). I suppose they were a little out of step with the emergence of grunge, but the album holds up better than a lot of the stuff that followed in Nirvana’s wake. Includes a killer cover of Mick Jagger’s solo single, “Memo From Turner.” The cut here, “I’d Like to Volunteer (Please),” features Mick fucking Taylor on guitar. I remember opening all the windows in my college townhouse on a beautiful breezy spring night and blasting the shit out of this cut while my roommate and I drank and danced like schoolgirls. Which we were not. 

The Wild Colonials’ Fruit of Life (1994) - I love everything by this weirdly overlooked group. “Everything” consisting of two proper albums (this one and 1996′s “Life as We Know It”), a collection of their music from films (2000′s ”Reel Life, Volume One”), a brief latter day seven track release (2007′s “Life As We Know It”), and assorted odds and ends (including singer Angela McCluskey’s solo work). But their debut made a huge impact on me when it dropped, and no one else seemed to notice.

Richard Davies’ Telegraph (1998) - Davies was a member of Cardinal with Eric Matthews, but this, his second solo album, is the work that resonated most with  me then and now. Almost psychedelic, but dreamier. Almost folk, but with more musical color. Poetic and lovely. As with the best nineties’ albums, it never feels rooted in time or place. Great stuff.

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Richard Davies - Confederate Cheerio Call- Uploaded by shatteredmoon

Reemember this from 1998 - great that this video finally resurfaced!

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The Moles "Artificial Heart" live at Austin Jukebox. Uploaded by Super Secret Records

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The Moles — Code Word (Super Secret Records)

Code Word by The Moles

The return of the Moles is one of the more welcome surprises of the late 2010s. Richard Davies helmed the band through a stretch as a cohesive purveyor of catchy pop from Sydney Australia and a gradual wind-down that an intriguingly entropic mini-LP, Instinct, before Davies retired the name in the mid-1990s in order to record under his own name and as half of the baroque pop project Cardinal. Davies fit that music into a life increasingly filled by the demands of family and a career as a trial attorney, and the flow of solo albums slowed. That seemed to be that until the middle of this decade, when Fire records compiled a survey of the Moles’ output and Davies played some shows under the name to support it.

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Just reposting!

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Meant to post more about this last October when it came out. Terrific new record from The Moles (another double album! ) available on Super Secret records . Again a very eclectic and inventivw mix of tracks

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The Moles “Code Word” double-album & Tshirt bundle now available

For a limited time you can bundle The Moles most recent album “Code Word” with a limited edition Austin Jukebox #8 T-shirt, headlined by the Moles on September 8, 2017 at Beerland, Texas in Austin. Only 100 T-shirts were made and most were given away to audience members at the show, so only a few T-shirts remain. The album described as “Powerful, Brilliant” by Pop Matters, is available on double vinyl LP with beautiful gatefold jacket packaging, or CD.

Order at link below.

T-shirt:

The Moles — Code Word (double LP)

Available on double vinyl LP In gatefold jacket, CD, or bundle one of those with a limited edition Austin Jukebox #8 T-shirt (only 100 T-shi

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11/29/18.

I was surprised to see that Richard Davies has followed up with a new record so relatively quickly. 2016′s Tonight’s Music after all was rumored to be coming out over the last 10+ years. Perhaps Code Word (double lp!) was expedited by his undercover Moles musicians clustered in NYC, Detroit, Austin, Mexico City, Easthampton, and Somerville who recorded the songs.

Moon in the Daytime and After May are the only two songs available here…both sound like a fine continuation of the distinctive songwriting from his solo records mixed with old and new Moles experimentation.

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The Moles ~ Interviewed on 2SER's Static

Original air date ~ 8th September 2016 We speak to Sydney's ex-pat chamber-pop roustabout Richard Davies about his first album under The Moles' moniker in over 20 years, the towering "Tonight's Music

Nice radio interview with Richard about 'Tonight's Music'

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finally with us! many wonderful tracks on the album

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The Moles: Tonight’s Music review – stupidly catchy, off-kilter indie-rock

Good review in today's Guardian of 'Tonight's music'

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The Moles - Dreamland (2016)

Hey everyone - a recording from 2016!  The Moles these days are basically Richard Davies and friends.  Sounds a bit like David Kilgour to me.

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Lovely guitars on this track

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The Moles - Damien Lovelock

The Moles release a teasing listen from the upcoming album ‘Tonight’s Music’ ahead of US live dates this month in New York City. A short burst of chugging guitars and spinning wordplay ‘Damien Lovel

The Moles- Damien Lovelock

OK all you Richard Davies/Moles fans have most probably heard this already but hey! VERY exicted that 'Tonight's Music' is due to be released. Thank you Fire Records!- This is such a good track- hard to believe it is jsut over a minute long