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Composition Book
CD $13.00

02/07/2025 657628450221 

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LP $22.00

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MP3 $9.90

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“Richard Davies is one of the last great songwriters on planet Earth. Every song on Composition Book is up there with his finest and so it's no small feat that after 35 years of making beautiful records, this one is his best.” – Robert Pollard / Guided By Voices

Australian mad scientist Richard Davies has long flown under the popular radar with his groups The Moles and Cardinal, but his 10 albums are loved and championed by indie rock royalty. The Flaming Lips, for example, have recorded a Davies song and backed him up on a Moles tour in 1995.

A scholar of the songwriting of The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Dylan et al., Davies spins off subtle, catchy indie rock melodies, sometimes reassembled in bizarre Frankenstein arrangements and deconstructed sonic derangements. On Composition Book, The Moles have evolved with emphasis on acoustic guitar and divine female voices. Davies’ lyrical non sequiturs and caustic wit sting, surprise and delight.

“The Australian-bred, New England-based Richard Davies has long been a secret-handshake artist for indie diehards; his songs suggest self-contained pop hits from a crooked dimension.” – The New Yorker

“The greatest differentiator between the work of the Moles and that of their contemporaries, though, is Davies himself. As a presence, there is something deeply and beguilingly inscrutable about him, a purposeful blankness that betrays an enormous amount of weight and depth behind it, and oozes both vulnerability and vitriol when it breaks and cracks.” – Pitchfork

Tracklist

  1. #1 Feel Like a Dollar


  2. #2 Chimes


  3. #3 Alvin Hollis


  4. #4 Lost Generation


  5. #5 Since I Don't Know When


  6. #6 Rattlesnakes, Vampires, Horse Tribes and Rocket Science


  7. #7 One Day


  8. #8 Tragedy


  9. #9 Had To Be You


  10. #10 Blow Yer Mind


  11. #11 Promised Land


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