Mark of the Mole

by The Residents

Mark of the Mole cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 September 1981
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 40:52
  • Community rating: 3.84/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Bill Lightner, Richard Marriott

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Residents plunge into deeply impenetrable, highly ambitious concept album territory with the first installment of their notoriously unfinished 'Mole Trilogy'. Utilizing cold, highly repetitive drum machines and deeply ominous, minimal synthesizers, 'Mark of the Mole' crafts a surreal, incredibly dark, and abstractly satirical narrative about a subterranean race facing war.

Genres

Descriptors: conceptual, war, satirical, experimental, leftfield, avant-garde, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. Voices Of The Air (2:54)
  2. The Ultimate Disaster (8:54)
  3. Migration (7:14)
  4. Another Land (4:42)
  5. The New Machine (7:16)
  6. Final Confrontation (9:48)

Credits

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