No, not a tribute band to Robert Wyatt and Matching Mole, this quartet is a whole Mole to themselves, although there's nothing conspicuously cute or indeed underground about this fine foursome. The less charitable may suggest they are EST with a guitar, and there are plenty of echoes of the late lamented Scandinavians. Aanderud has a left hand like a mighty axe with which he lays down great fat chords under which Molina throbs most muscularly. So cuts like ‘Flour Tortilla Variation’ have that EST vibe. But Gilmore adds a whole vision extra. Perhaps best known from his association with Steve Coleman, he's at his best laying down the neurotic funk lines of the closing ‘Grubenid’, or comping eerily under Aanderud's long lines on the title track. But when he's not being quirky, Gilmore also knows how to plain rock out, as on the in-your-face ‘Greenland’. Mole will scare few horses with this quietly impressive debut, but credit again to RareNoise for promoting a band that could be at home on the shelves between your Steely Dan or EST CDs.