Mole Suit Choir

Baltimore, MD. “Mole Suit Choir brings together the best of avant-garde and ancient music” - Baynard Woods, The Baltimore City Paper. “Liz Downing and Rupert Wondolowski make for an archetypal Alt-Country odd couple - like Johnny and June on mushroom moonshine or the altogether stranger backwoods cousins of the Handsome Family. In fact their sound and delivery conjures up a stripped down Blanche, which works for me. Voices banjo and guitar set music to Rupert’s poetry to weird and often wonderful effect such as on “The Air Felt Great Today” and a harmonious though typically left-field rendition of the aforementioned Sparks’ “Weightless Again” whilst which doesn’t top the original (hey that would be fighting talk) can certainly stand tall in its own right. Downing often trills like Josephine Foster in the throws of hallucinogenic rapture while on “Testify” the pair practically howls like a couple of cartoon farmyard hounds to hilarious effect. By contrast the last two stanzas are almost conventional – “The Light Lives Everywhere Now” could easily have graced a Gene Clark set list while “We Shall Live Again” is a delightful refrain on which to end. Whether or not this sort of down-home, back porch weirdness is your thing I defy you not to smile your way through 31 minutes of inspired kookiness not to mention the more than occasional spark of genuine quality.” (Ian Fraser) - Terrascope Reviews