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

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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ODPHJDJDJDFODIFPCUXUXTZTSHSJDLDOZYZJDFJjsHSKudodivjdocjfpsudkzgxy6*7*7_?"'?"?'?"+"+#68(9'7

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

Devious brownie-points to Dominique for completely changing his tune (as 'twere) with exactly twenty seconds to go, you big troublemaker you ;)

I *will* say that Max Tundra is on fairly riotous form, even by his standards.

Sheesh, this record could have been called Amazing Segues: The Album. This is the proggest thing ever :D

this is the first I've heard about the existence of this ... I actually want a copy

wtf how have I not heard of this Mutation project yet

Imago, I have a question for you, if you'll indulge me. There is a post from some years ago somewhere on ilx (perhaps on this very thread) in which you mention the Liverpool band a.P.A.t.T. and mention that despite them being the kind of thing that you like you hadn't been very impressed by any of the tracks by them that you'd heard. Have you heard any more a.P.A.t.T. since then? Have you changed your opinion of them at all?

There's a band from Liverpool called a.P.a.T.T. on the other hand who are yet to square their immensely whimsical ambitions with not sounding like a load of show-offy
kids on maximum annoying mode. It's a sort of cutesy-arty-sans-craft melange of not-actually-very-good ideas with the occasional bright spark.

This the post, I'd forgotten than I could just put 'a.P.A.t.T.' into the search box, somehow.

How very rude of me. There was a second album. I liked one of the songs, a silly spook-out called Two Fifths Julie Walters. There was an ever-so-arch straight-pop 'prank' called Yves Saint-Laurent which was awful. The rest I completely forget (think the opening track Liverwort wasn't bad though). Why do you ask?

No particular reason, I searched for a.P.A.t.T on ilx and found that post, probably years ago now and the thread just reminded me of them. I sat next to a couple of them once at a showing of 'It Came From Outer Space' with a live soundtrack by Pere Ubu at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.

I felt like I was in with the in crowd.

Haha! You were in with a crowd. Maybe their third album will nail it. Far too goofy-without-substance for me as it stands though.

Incidentally, this song is pretty much what the computer would come up with if you put everything I liked into it at the same time: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/mutation-napalm-death-the-wildhearts-and-the-fall-new-song