Tonight's Music

The first official collection of new music to be released under the Moles moniker in over 20 years, Tonight's Music picks right up where 1994's Instinct left off. Curious, ramshackle, and unapologetically rough around the edges, the two-disc, 24-track set is more sprawling than it is ambitious, but like everything else that the enigmatic Richard Davies (Moles, Cardinal, Cosmos) lays his hands on, the results are, more often than not, mesmerizing. Recorded sporadically over a long period of time in Boston, New York, and Western Massachusetts, Davies carries the bulk of the proceedings on his own, but Sebadoh's Bob Fay, former Sugar member Malcolm Travis, Free Time's Dion Nania, and Jarvis Taveniere of Woods pitch in as well. By keeping things relatively lo-fi, there's little to separate, at least sonically, the material on Tonight's Music from the band's early-'90s output. Fans who swooned over the Pavement-meets-Skip Spence-inspired, jangle pop weirdness of songs like "Wires," "Bury Me