Star Moles- Highway to Hell

Emily Moales, the bracingly prolific one-woman concern behind Star Moles, whose Bandcamp page alone constitutes something like a minor life's work, has with Highway to Hell arrived at a recording that renders all forty-odd of her previous releases mere preparation: cut with Kevin Basko's gang at Historic New Jersey studio in Philadelphia, it is a fully-realized, textural thing, dense with sly melodies that accumulate meaning with each listen. In the manner of Fiona Apple, Moals possesses a bruised and exacting quality that makes these ten songs remarkable.