- Colin de la Plante's alias may be tongue in cheek—he's always underground, baby—but it's difficult to argue that over the past decade, The Mole's played by anything but his own rules. This two-track vinyl outing for Barbara Preisinger's Slices of Life explores the twisted, mutant disco that's been a rich seam running through most of the Canadian's work. The trippy disco of "Hang In There Fry Guy" plaits machinegun cowbells, thumping glam rock snares, portentous synths and, somewhere in the distance, an unsettling vocal snippet.
Not quite as satanic and warped, and with a tempo that slips under 120 BPM, "Now I Understand" sidles by in a clash of echoing rimshots and rattling congas, supported by a sullen bassline. Two-thirds through, for seemingly no other reason than because he could, de la Plante drops in a brief interlude that sounds like an excerpt from the Bladerunner soundtrack. Then, as quickly as it appears, it's gone, and we're back into a locked groove that threatens to never run out.
Tracklist A Hang In There Fry Guy
B Now I Understand