Untune The Sky

The Moles were a puzzling prospect when they emerged, on the fringes of Sydney’s pub scene, in the late 1980s. Their original line-up – Richard Davies, Warren Armstrong, Carl Zadro and Glenn Fredericks – was a motley unit of everyday surrealists, with Davies writing obliquely catchy pop songs you’d be more likely to hear on New Zealand’s Flying Nun label. But their real art was in the way they slyly upended your expectations, opening their debut album with the whirring drone of “Wires”, or aiming for the stars with the heraldic “Surf’s Up”.