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

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

OK, just smiled for the first time today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWYqV4zxjkA

Error 500 is amazing, of course. The White Leg songs are pretty much roided-out Sing To God songs (thanks Jon Poole!)

The title-track from the Shrubbies album stands alongside any NSRO material, maybe (that's a monstrous call coming from me)

http://shrubbies.bandcamp.com/track/memphis-in-texas

What is nsro?

North Sea Radio Orchestra, one of the greatest bands in the world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX2rUUcs0G4

might be a bit too reserved for you idk

Okay, so Regal Worm have been doing it for me recently and are not unlike Knifeworld in spots.

http://regalworm.bandcamp.com/

This is some of the best neo-prog I've heard

They seem to be genuinely inspired by yer Soft Machines and King Crimsons without slavishly trying to repeat them

Now THIS thread I can get behind.

All that's missing is Uz Jsme Doma:
https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kapka-droplet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy3QkuY7ZU8

Long-running sort of pronk from the Czech Republic (I don't know why the video's pulsating like that in the youtube link though).

Oh, there's an UJD video upthread. Oops.

Time of Orchids were something fucking special, and relevant to the thread I think. Both of their drummers have been/are now in Kayo Dot if that's relevant to you. Wonderful twisty avant-math-prog with some goose-bump inducing melodies (on their last two albums at least... their early work isn't so hot).

http://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/track/darling-abandon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwMizKi2Ilc

Former guitarist and drummer Dave Bodie are now in another cool new avant-prog band too!

http://infantephant.bandcamp.com/releases

Just finished Regal Worm, and what a fun trip it was - onto the rest!

MaresNest, what's the latest on This Is Puberty? The Kickstarter updates have stopped coming :P

Actually, I'm not too sure. I know that Calum is shouldering most of the responsibility when it comes to manufacturing, mailing and all the rest, he might still be dealing with the tail end of the Ghosts EP.

Oh and also, Kitten Pyramid are this other band that I have been digging recently who are a kind of electro/acoustically Glam/Barrett/Ayers thing with Atom Heart Mother interludes with possibly some very early Cardiacs.

https://soundcloud.com/kittenpyramid

Also LJ, do you know this OLD rekkid?

The best thing ever, nobody cares and it sold bugger all but I still listen to it all the time, it's genuinely odd and lovely.

Old Lady Drivers were this pretty awful death metal joke band and then they truncated their name and made this which is more like a glacial, druggy Young Gods.

James Plotkin made most of it with just the singer iirc. The whole thing is on YT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLm2ozVoiyg

And it sold so badly (one of Earache's worst selling ever) you can still buy a new/original copy from them for a fiver on Ebay.

um, holy fucking shit @ OLD

I listened to Infantephant and it was cool if a bit too noodly - will try again soon. Then I listened to Naked City :D

Time Of Orchids I need to devote a bit more time to, maybe over the weekend

Might go for Kitten Pyramid next, that's an enticing write-up

this OLD is simply magnificent

Kitten Pyramid like a beefed-up, weirded-out take on Silvery's glam-prog shenanigans. They're fucking great

Thought you might like OLD, such a shame nobody gives a shit.

Giving the Kitten Pyramid EP another go-around (it's a remarkably varied 12 minutes) and then I might explore that OLD record more deeply. It sounds like absolutely nothing else I've heard

that OLD stuff is pretty cool. me likey.

I love the disintegrating end of KP's English Rosa, tons of fun

Michael, the whole of that OLD record is a bit of a journey, worth spending some time with.

will check it out, its on spotify

Listening to it in order. Halfway through 'Break (You)'. Completely overwhelmed tbh, this is insanely good

There's one track where they just splice in 30 secs of an Old Lady Drivers bootleg or something for no perceivable reason, it's quite strange.

LOL literally AS I read that, it happened :D about a minute into Thug. They bleed the original song back in really beautifully, in fact

Cover is great too, that calculator font

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ke9I0GFSL.jpg

oversaturated, weirdly-filtered photos are a particular joy of mine

On the last track now. This has all reminded me, a very little, of Devin Townsend's quieter stuff, but much, much harder to place. Its obtuseness is delicious.

Yea I'm listening to it too, last track is a slight curveball, but it grows on you.

yeah just listening to it now. its a slippery divil. once you got a handle on it, it flies off in some other mad direction. its hard to place it indeed. a bit of IDM, a bit of skronk....

The only clear influence - to my ear at least - is The Young Gods and even that only really applies to the samples and drums in a few songs.

New Stars in Battledress! (File next to Lapsus Linguae under things I thought I'd never hear)

http://www.thegenepool.co.uk/items/1361.htm

New song is dreamy.

Oh and re: OLD I've heard and liked the earlier stuff but never checked out Formula...

I don't know what I think of it yet, I'm still getting over the fact that Alan Dubin's *singing*

oh that new SiB song is lovely

have been listening to the O.L.D. album a LOT. atomsmasher is also incredible

I fear I haven't given Atomsmasher fair crack of the whip, I will revisit when I'm back from my hols.

I've only heard one Cardiacs album, but I feel like Eldridge Skell's The Rude Staircase are relevant to this thread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzHXtG1wR-w

https://myspace.com/therudestaircase

that was cool - wacky & mad with a RIO/pronk attitude, although I wouldn't necessarily say Cardiacsy (interestingly, the first comment is from a chap who contributed a cover to the Tim Smith benefit album); its melodic sensibility is overwhelmingly Beatlesy, for mine. The most Cardiacsy band from America right now is, as far as I'm aware, Blanche Blanche Blanche, whom I absolutely fucking adore

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eZ8_lD-fPk

I may nonetheless check out Eldridge Skell and his Rude Staircase further, because it had something of the Mr Bungle/Primus sado-masochism about it