Unknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like

There's three NSRO records! They're all good, though.

I always find it really weird that Richard Larcombe used to be in a band with, of all people, Iain Lee. They split due to Lee's commitment to his TV "career". He might've been better off sticking with the band in retrospect.

All three NSRO albums are amazing. The first one or the third one would be best for starters, I think - the second one's a bit less immediate.

Loving MN's connections! The world of melody-soaked English art-pop is a smaller one than it perhaps should be...

Here's one off the third album that I'm currently obsessing over:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL4f_AP2loQ

William D Drake's solo stuff is absolutely urgent + key too

Roughly 1/5 of my life is spent thinking this is the best genre of all the genres, if it is a genre

Long-shot question: anyone remember a track by a band in this genre called "Popocatepetl" from maybe 10-15 years ago? I thought it was Lapsus Linguae but I'm not getting anything from Google.

Pop-A-Cat-A-Petal was Ultrasound's name before they were Ultrasound, was that what you were thinking of? I think they did release some material under that name early on.

never heard them but wasn't that the name of the singer from Ultrasound's band before he joined Ultrasound

er xp

I've seen it spelled like the volcano too I think?

maybe wrongly but

Ah okay. This has helped. I think it's a track by them on one of the ORG Records compilations I was thinking of. I have to take a look through my old CD box.

i thought i had all the org comps but clearly i don't!

was going through boxes of 45s the other day to chuck in the skip and found a rich seam of monsoon bassoon records, timely..

Hmm, weren't all the Monsoon Bassoon recordings(including unreleased stuff) supposed to be coming out in a big box? Wonder what happened to that.

Huh, I forgot about that, I was looking forward to buying it if it ever happens. And when oh when will the Deep Turtle retrospective finally come out?

(if anyone on this thread has not heard Deep Turtle, check out whatever you can find on youtube - There's a Vomitsprinkler in my Liverriver is a fine album and possibly the best album title ever - and join me in crying over the total out-of-print-ness of all of it. crazy Finns)

whole album, will listen now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ8mRPIC8Y4

ohhhh yes

upgrade that to *oh my fucking lord*

like a more seamless, less self-conscious mr bungle, but with possibly more range and better songwriting? and a slier humour? and more punk? camp blackfoot were mentioned upthread - their music is pretty much in this album's unhinged shadow (as is the mars volta, kinda)

each trilogy (interesting deconstruction of 'prog' as essentially consisting, short-story-style, of a beginning, middle and end) so far has been better than the one before it, and the first one was fucking amazing

alright, here you go (from a band I've been really digging lately)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLi1ivZ4cXk

outside of the Cardiacs themselves I don't really find much modern prog that compares to the good ol' bands but lately I realized that I prefer them over Yes, Genesis, Gentle Giant, etc

one more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EqAxBJUjM

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https://www.facebook.com/lapsus.linguae.band

Is that you LJ?

once a week wasn't ample enough

I get it, ta

stay tuned for big project involving kavus from cardiacs/guapo, jg thirlwell, max tundra, bob drake, weasel walter, myself, and many more...

its really awesome how a hyperactive chiptune kinda guy like Max Tundra is part of this whole scene. keep us posted Dom!!!

*actually dies*

dom yr spoiling me so goddamn rotten I don't even

I mean

Yeah really...spill the beans here whenever it's prudent please.

haha I will!

This is kinda great.

http://superbestfriendsclub.co.uk/

Meant to post this a long time ago, but kept forgetting (ignore the video footage):

http://youtu.be/53omd2Bj2zs?t=52s

dunno maresnest - it's kinda everything everythingy or gang gang dancey rather than cardiacsy, and it hasn't gripped me

wtf is that shit hexagon

Bah! :)

Anyhoo, permit me to shill a little of my past. We just put up on Bandcamp a math-y thing I was part of a number of years ago.

http://foeband.bandcamp.com/

I already have that somewhere! (Thanks to you, admittedly.) It's very cool and I'll give it a good relisten today.

I can't get over how abysmal that video cr1msonh3xagon posted is. Out, negativity!

this Knifeworld album is really wonderful. I really hope another one comes along soon. I'm on my 4th listen, which is the point where I start to really unravel the structures of the tunes, and they're just so well put together. Miles ahead of Monsoon Bassoon (in my opinion)

Like minded folks may appreciate this new HeatWarmer rekkid

http://heatwarmer.bandcamp.com/

not feeling it, sorry. doesn't have the magic. comes off precious, forced-twee blathering. gonna listen to actual cardiacs instead maybe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY_ekVg8e0g

^^^the magic

Your adherence to the thread title is kinda tiresome LJ

just giving my own goddamned opinion. or would you prefer silence?

sorry, it's a bad month/year, life stinks and Heatwarmer did nothing to make me feel any better, *whether Cardiacsy or no*

besides, soon the belated lapsus linguae will bulldoze thru these petty differences and unite the whole avant-prog division into a single unending rapture

I wasn't asking for your opinion

what the hell, dude

*makes suggestion*

*instant review based on three partials on the bandcamp site ANCIENT CARDIACS YOUTUBE*

I mean fuck off yeah

sheesh it's like you're in the band or something

but your own music (at least, what i've heard of it) is a zillion times better than whatever that was, so you clearly aren't

maybe the first couple of tracks are duff. what's your favourite track? there might be a good track.

like, for fuck's sake, you made an album suggestion not two days ago (shrubbies) and I listened to the album twice through and *adored* most of it. it's not like i regularly shit over your recommendations. quite the opposite. one happens to fall a bit flat and you go all bovine on me, what the hell

this is why the left always fucking lose

^^^anyway, enough of this idiocy

stay tuned for big project involving kavus from cardiacs/guapo, jg thirlwell, max tundra, bob drake, weasel walter, myself, and many more...

― Dominique, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:32 (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've just ordered it! Turned out to be the following mouthwatering confection: https://thegenepool.f-ten.net/items/1108.htm

Can't wait to hear it.

In even-more-exciting news, Lapsus Linguae have put a nearly-finished version of the EP up. It's terrifyingly good. And to think it's the unpolished version of the starter course: http://lapsus-linguae.bandcamp.com/

The Exquisite Corpse Game is amazing :D

Pointless to pick favourite 'bits' - of all the devices to ensure full-album listening, privileging the whole over the parts, this is perhaps the most ingenious I've heard yet. Helps that the roster of artists have produced universally fine, mutually-understanding work