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I just ordered Houdini. WHICH WILL ARRIVE FIRST??!?!?!??!???!??!!??!??!?

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't really got much time for girls
Don't get me wrong now
Don't get me wrong now
It's just my nights are occupied with lighting
These damn lamps
???
Oh, and night's a time for courting for girls
Night's a time for courting for girls
Isn't it?

I've been propositioned by girls before
On me lamp rounds
Oh yes, I have
But I'm at pains to explain it's not my line of trade
Buying flowers and chocolate mice
It's just the thought of commitment's totally wild
Any sort of commitment's out of order
Isn't it?

I've had some girls come up to me
Who said it won't take that long
Just a quick one up the back
One for the road
And I'm at pains to explain I'm not that type of guy
Send the sulking (?) bitches on their way

I seem to have a lot more time for guys
Don't get me wrong now
Don't get me wrong now
It's just their wit and charm and conversation
Captures youth and that's the truth
Oh and youth's the time when cares traipse free...

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

I also ordered Buttergut and Blush by Bows.

Louis do you like LOOSE FUR?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I like Wilco's last two studio albums, I haven't investigated Loose Fur really. Why, they good?

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Their single from the second album I kinda found simplistic and forgettable.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Loose Fur are my favourite default listening lately. I think you'd wank yourself sore over Wreckroom from the last album, or any of the krauty jams on the first.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

OK, shall have a reccy.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

NICK, do YOU like CARDIACS?

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. Sell 'em to me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well, they formed in the late-70's but didn't write their masterpiece (double-album Sing To God) until 1995. They're a band who don't really care for linear song structures; in fact, they direct a song in whichever way takes their (vast) imaginations. At their peak the lead singer/rhythm guitarist Tim Smith was able to mix punky, thrashy guitars with beautiful, melodious synth ambience at the drop of a hat, playing around with (awesome) nonsense lyrics (that probably have insanely complicated hidden meanings) and writing some of the most liberated, high-energy, uncomplacent music I've ever heard. Imagine a more rockin' Fiery Furnaces if the Fiery Furnaces were really, really, really fucking good.

I don't quite have your music-selling skills, however, Nick (the sentence from the 'This New Day' review about widescreen guitar explosions = I WANT RECORD), so I'll let the band do the talking.

This is a fucking religious experience.

http://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=KpEe0ztq2ck

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

erm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpEe0ztq2ck

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I fucking hate Fiery Furnaces.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Also Cardiacs albums are all about £50 second hand on Amazon. Fuck that with a blowfish.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, IMAGINE THEY WERE GOOD is what I'm saying, it's a leap of faith and also not a very good comparison, it's just that I'm struggling to think of bands who've attempted the sort of leap-about madness that is the Cardiacs' preserve.

Oh, hang on...

― cringing excesses of Mansun's 'Six' (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I could do what another ILX poster did to me and send copies of their albums by post. The best way to spread the word.

You can also get their albums cheaply from their own website.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I love love love Houdini.

Sing to God is my least favourite Cardiacs album (tho I'm not sure this is the right thread to announce this).

― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

All the renowned ones are out of stock on their own site!

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

crikey nick, just watch the damn Youtube video already...

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wait I meant Valentino, not Houdini, duh.

― a nuclear-powered carrot (braveclub), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I can't watch Youtube at work! I fucking hate Youtube.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

hmm.

http://download.yousendit.com/DE7C8DC44EE79F97

http://download.yousendit.com/FCD2053C3B705000

have also sent these to yr address. consider them a taster.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Cheers dude.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

i beat both of you, because i just dug-out my never listened to copy of Houdini on the strength of this thread (i'm currently flogging all my cds, which is why i'm finding so much unlistened to stuff right now). looking forward to it.

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Man I just listened to Valentino a few days ago driving around downtown Nashville - bouncing around in my car playing air percussion. I'm a bit bummed though cause I can't locate my copy of Houdini. Anywho those two albums were all I heard but they were something special.

Classic indeed.

― Sir Echo (Sir Echo), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

the drum and bass-y songs on Amelie don't sit well with me.

― artdamages (artdamages), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, he did that stuff better on the bows records

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's really cool to see someone mentioning this band. I really flipped about them at the time, but the misogyny of lines like "send the bitches on their way" was a real turnoff and I quit paying attention. They had a good sound, though.

― A Tiny Footpath (Bimble...), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't that the point of the lyric: it's in character of someone repressing his homosexuality leading to misogyny.

― barnaby69 (barnaby68), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

he's about as politically correct as you can get.

― keyth (keyth), Saturday, 3 February 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

seven months pass...

I just dug out my copy of Houdini because I've been listening to a lot of AR Kane lately and was reminded of LFK. I'm glad others noted the connection, I think for it's the vocals that made the association most immediately. The most amusing part of this is that when I originally picked up the Buttergut EP when it was originally released, I loved the music but found the vocals to be a complete turn-off. Now, the vocals and lyrics are one of the most compelling parts of the record for me. Who says people don't change?

Regardless, this is a completely classic album and it's a shame that it's so thoroughly out of print and unavailable. I never picked up the follow-up albums but just scored them from emusic.

How are Sutherland's novels?

― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 27 September 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

If someone were to ask me right now, I'd name LFK as my favourite band, I think.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 08:25 (eighteen years ago)

Please to be telling me if there are any other records out there that do what Amelia does?

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

PLEASE.

Also did Jamie Watson ever produce / engineer / record anyone else?

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Join me in my LFK love, please...

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

and we go full-circle, for this is the thread on which I first alerted NS to cardiacs!

need to get hold of 'amelia' and 'valentino'. amazon it is.

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Amelia might be their best.

― Scik Mouthy, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I saw them open for Medicine, way back when...took a first date, she spent the whole set with her hands over her ears...there was no second date!

liked them lots..."medieval hip hop", the Wire wag said...

― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

LFK, Laika, Pram, Moonshake, PJ Harvey, Stereolab...Too Pure was on a roll in those days, eh?

― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hell yeah. And even some of the obscurer stuff still works -- Minxus, for instance. Great album.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

not to mention Seefeel, Mouse On Mars, Th' Faith Healers, Jack, Electrane...such a range...affordable as imports, too...

― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

ElectraLAne...but you knew that...

― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

lol shall we tell him

― Just got offed, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

no, he needs to find out the hard way

― henry s, Wednesday, 19 December 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

minxus were great, they got tagged as the poor man's pj harvey though. pity. minxus albums can be found in every bargain bin. when will luke stop making boring music with germans and make another bows album? will he ever?

― keythkeyth, Thursday, 20 December 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, two new (to me, anyway) LFK singles arrived today in the mail - I only ordered them yesterday.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

And it's Electrelane, kids.

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

BUT NOT ANYMORE BOOHOO

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 20 December 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

wut, no love for teh Voodoo Queens?

where did it all go pear-shaped with Too Pure? Hefner? Billy Mahonie? Murray the Hump? earlier, even? Seely? the execrable Jack?

― Mr. Hal Jam, Thursday, 20 December 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

hefner great through the first album. jack first album great. i think when seely came it was the end. now supposedly they are good again but they aren't really. the bands all seem so small and tinny in comparison.

― keythkeyth, Saturday, 22 December 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

Long Kill Fillie.

― jim, Saturday, 22 December 2007 02:40 (eighteen years ago)

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happy to hear he is a Hawkwind fan -

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24293022.luke-sutherland-olivia-colman-rise-right-cat-videos/

― stirmonster, Saturday, 4 May 2024 11:42 (two years ago)

Great little interview - would love to hear his soundtrack to Dovzhenko's Earth!

https://edinburghtradfest.com/schedule/2024/5/11/earth

― etc, Monday, 6 May 2024 20:34 (two years ago)

Interesting interview and him doing that soundtrack Saturday May 11!

― curmudgeon, Friday, 10 May 2024 20:07 (two years ago)

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