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

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

For no reason, Funzig popped into my head in the middle of a 12 hr flight yesterday.

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

I think the last time I listened to these guys was possibly around 1997.

discovered an american band by contacting one of their members on okcupid (lol)

anyway, they're a total cardiacsgasm, an absolute gas. welcome to the weird and wonderful world of pseudo/sentai: http://pseudosentai.bandcamp.com/

'nature's imagination (chapter two)' and the more melodically developed parts of post-laptop-theft compilation 'there's always a fucking problem' are thrilling & beautiful, and the band's got more stuff in the works

like, this song's got cardiacs coming out of any orifice you could name

Like that track, will investigate. It's demo quality reminds me of listening to scuzzy 3rd gen tapes of Cardiacs influenced bands like Mad Uncle Jane and Sleepy People.

have subsequently been sent their next album privately and whoo boy there's some good stuff on it :)

ummm track 18 of that album ('pyro cyclone dances the weathervane waltz') is also fucking amazing

sleepy people was ultrasound related wasn't it

Yeah I think some of them morphed into Ultrasound, both bands I mention were very heavily and obviously influenced by Cardiacs, instead of just having a kind of 'spin' on what Cardiacs were doing.

ah cool, ok

they're not usually seen with the extended family nowadays but I guess they burnt out a bit too early for all that

Chemical Clocks have a new album. Maybe a bit more fusion than a lot of the stuff on this thread but amazing recording and very emotional for instrumental music.

https://chemicalclock.bandcamp.com/

tags: jazz avant-garde bass dance disco party drums electronic keyboard power pop trumpet video game western art music Seattle

new Stars In Battledress is str8 awesome

will hear that Chemical Clocks thing soon

actually the new SIB is probably better than Secrets & Signals, it's that good

Chemical Clock reminding me of Jaga Jazzist slightly, except much, much, much better :)

My band were compared to the Cardiacs the other day, which I was kind of pleased about.

I've been waiting for that second SIB record since I heard Women From The Ministry almost 10 years ago, their crowning achievement.

Yeah I've heard most of these songs live, so great they finally recorded them though

& yeah TWFTM feels like their Homesweet Homestead Hideaway moment. this album is fucking phenomenal btw, threatening my year-end top 2 or 3 alongside Jute Gyte and Owen Pallett

Posted this on the pretty piano thread, where I'm sure it'll pass without comment but I love this track so much, def Tim/Sea Nymphs influence happening.

http://thegasman.bandcamp.com/track/aeons

Same Gasman that did some stuff on Planet Mu?

Indeed

Same Gasman who was a Cardiacs founder member lol ffs

Oh wait, maybe not. Think I'm confusing him with Cawthra

Redbus Noface / Gasman is a helluva mixup, whoops

will check this

Yeah, I'll definitely give it a listen.

lol ffs yerself, buggerlugs :)

The Cardiacs extended family is a giant & knotty thing, worthy of its own discourse, fandom & writing; I make no apologies ;)

played The Exquisite Corpse Game for my sexagenarian parents in the car today and they liked it so much they borrowed it :)

"Pinocchio Falls in Love" off Secrets and Signals is one of the prettiest, most haunting songs I've ever heard. Yeah hyperbole but the echo on the chorus just kills me. Damn, damn, damn

I'm not sure if this is the best place for this but I don't know where else it would go:

Казма-Казма/Kazma Kazma

Ukrainian psychedelic rock band based in Kharkov in 1991.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyJxDUN33qs

that person has lots of interesting videos on their youtube account in an 80s soviet post punk vein, btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG1UFG3bKAo

this is a cover of a xiu xiu song that sounds a bit like a cross between Max Tundra and Prefab Sprout. I was disappointed when I listened to xiu xiu and they didn't sound like Max Tundra or Prefab Sprout
Stuart Maconie played this on his radio show on Sunday 6/1/2013 and I heard it on the iplayer sometime in the following week and was going to say something about it on ilx but I didn't.
(according to the BBC website he played it on two other occasions as well, but it was definitely the 6 Jan 2013 programme that I heard)

haha this Ukranian stuff is fucking amazing

track two is like a bizarro Icing On The World

Thomas one veers more Jaga Jazzist than Max Tundra imo, but it's not bad at all

this Kazma-Kazma shit is SO. FUCKING. INCREDIBLE

http://www.bibbletang.com/funzig/mp3/funzig%20live%20-%20metronomic%20dog%20bark.mp3

kazma kazma is quite a find

seriously. one of the best things i've heard in ages.

will check out that link after finishing with this new HMHB album, MN - what is it?

Something new from this Canadian band Sprïng who I've seen a couple of times.

More on the psych side but definitely "vaguely-Cardiacy prog-pop".

Well they def know Cardiacs because there's a #Pronk at the bottom of the info window.