THE RESIDENTS Mark Of The Mole - Rare US Brown Vinyl LP - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED

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THE RESIDENTS

Mark Of The Mole

Rare US Brown Vinyl LP released on Ralph Records in 1982.
Silk-screened sleeve.
Includes silk-screened innersleeve.

Sleeve is autographed on rear - see pictures.

Also includes:
Hand-annotated Mark Of The Mole 'Background Info' promo sheet from Ralph Records.
Hand-written note from Ralph Records (including Ralph Records 10th Anniversary sticker).
'Mark Of The Mole' promo postcard.

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RZ-8152 A   LKIKS   +   KM+++   KM-6911-A
RZ 8152 B Re1   LKIKS   KM-6911-B re1   +   KM+

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After Eskimo, the band's attempt to sonically recreate Inuit tales through sound, the Residents began to undertake a similar project that would colour the rest of their career. The Mark of the Mole trilogy would result in three albums and a world tour that would nearly bankrupt the band and Ralph Records, and cause (rumour has it) two of the original members to leave the band. It was also the beginning of the band's desire to broaden their scope, to construct long concept albums, or imagine series of albums that would never be completed.

Mark of the Mole imagines a race of mole workers who live underground and worship darkness and work (they're the heroes). When a flood forces them to flee their home, they migrate across the desert to the land of the Chubs, who subjugate them and cause war to break out. This is some of the grimmest, most discordant, rough hewn music the band has set down on record, with a grinding piece called "It Never Stops" summing up the tone of the record perfectly. Perversely, there is much to enjoy in this trip to the group's dark side, and the album's resolution truly feels like a breath of fresh air.

Tracks Are :-

Side One

Hole-Workers At The Mercies Of Nature
Voices Of The Air
Voices Of The Air
The Ultimate Disaster
Won't You Keep Us Working?
First Warning
Back To Normality?
The Sky Falls!
Why Are We Crying?
The Tunnels Are Filling
It Never Stops
Migration
March To The Sea
The Observer
Hole-Workers' New Hymn

Side Two

Hole-Workers Vs Man And Machine
Another Land
Rumors
Arrival
Deployment
Saturation
The New Machine
Idea
Construction
Failure / Reconstruction
Success
Final Confrontation
Driving The Moles Away
Don't Tread On Me
The Short War
Resolution?

Released on 'Ralph Records' in 1982

Catalogue No. RZ-8152

Disc is in EX+ condition

Sleeve is in EX+ condition

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