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2 | Mole's uninvited guests | 3:34 |
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3 | Crowding around the dinner table | 5:06 |
| 4 | A misunderstanding over mustard | 1:40 | |
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5 | Out by the porch, hiding from the family | 2:59 |
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6 | Staring helplessly at the frost filled exit | 1:43 |
| 7 | Digging up to the fields and river | 9:48 | |
| 8 | Glaring at the frozen water... | 3:56 |
One more to round out what has been a very busy year for Mole.
"Nothing had been heard for some time now...not a sound, and the animals had fallen into a deep sleep. The dishes were done, the fire burnt out. There sat an unfinished puzzle on the dining table, a messy pile of scrawled poems on the sideboard and a partially enjoyed novel strewn over the arm of a chair.
Yet in all of this quiet, a faint rumble and clatter began to sound. Not one of mechanical origin but certainly something moving closer...and most certainly in a hurry…"
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All music by The Sprigs
Images by Beverley Gooding
Inspired by Kenneth Graham’s ‘The Wind in the Willows’
Introductory text by The Sprigs
Additional text by Wesley Knowler included in cassette version.
The Sprigs is Rory Salter, Ben Murphy & Ben Waggett. Their new album 'For Red Riverbank' is available from Bison Records
'Armed with guitars, pipes, samples and bric-a-brac, it’d be easy for the Sprigs to succumb to a totally romanticised nostalgia for an imagined British folkloric tradition. There’s enough of it going around. Instead, the gang create a ramshackle, ruddy faced blend of introspective hibernation, real-world anxiety and some absolutely knee slapping, joy inducing tunes.'
