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

ha, I was totally expecting not to get the comparison, as the Liturgy I have heard has been thumbs-down from me -- but I can kind of see what you're saying, as Cardiacs are very fond of brassy fanfare-esque melodies (or fake brass anyway, which I'm also guessing is what Liturgy are using here). Beyond that, not so much.

What makes Cardiacs to me are a) Tim Smith's sense of harmony, and b) their lyrics. You could take away all the drums and backing vocals and mallets and horns, and just have a piano or guitar, and Tim Smith singing, and it wouldn't sound like anyone else but Cardiacs.

yep

but that doesn't mean that they don't fill the audio space with glorious, glorious noise :)

stripped-down cardiacs is sea nymphs anyway, which takes us full-circle to the NEW SEA NYMPHS. and the NEW NSRO. oh god

https://7shades.bandcamp.com/album/bursting

Overtly stated Cardiacs adoration from these. They're following this release up with a fundraising remix album for Tim, featuring David Minnick.

This is great fun! :D Very overt worship, but that's no bad thing. They seem to add their own spin to it.

Spratleys Japs have COME TO LIFE and are doing a gig in Brighton in November, btw :)

(although 'their own spin' contains something of the aggressive-wacky male progmetal stench that cardiacs themselves completely avoid at all times - we'll ignore this for now as they have decent tunes)

Anyway, true excellence is required for any Cardiacsy graduate to get their own thread...like this: North Sea Radio Orchestra - NSRO - chamber kraut folk - see also Shrubbies

fyi on the last Steve Davis/Kavus Torabi show, they played one of the new Sea Nymphs songs. It was good. Don't have the link, but it's on mixcloud.

Heard it now. It's amazing

So I saw on Facebook that Tim travelled up to London to see the Dutch band De Staat playing recently so I checked them out and well, yeah...hello.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXEgY7Xieus

much as I applaud the attempt to make a live-action Cyriak video, I'm not sold on the music, either as Cardiacsy or otherwise, but I won't close my mind to 'em just yet

actually wtf am I talking about, they're repulsively loathsome, they have the most hateful stage presence I've ever seen in a live video, let's pretend this bump didn't happen. and tim, whatever refloats yr boat man but if you can stomach this you can stomach finishing lsd :p

imma just stop posting on this thread that's named after me lol

we agree usually! aw man it is nothing personal

this thread is for stuff we both like though, you also have power of veto ;)

You go in hard LJ, have a care :)

sea nymphs will wash away all this discord next week anyway

Yeah, which reminds me, I must puchase

Joanna Wang has a new song and I think a new album on November 11 (or it might be an EP, I'm not sure):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew99FiYS9Q0

It's very, very exciting :D

She's only gone and gotten more Cardiacsy

Of course she also released an EP earlier in the year that was very pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v8GAfhUoME

So you can never quite tell what she's gonna do next.

Yeah I wasn't sold on that last EP - file under 'odd experiment' - but the new song is amazing

I get the impression she has to put out things like that EP occasionally to keep Sony happy so they'll let her keep doing her own stuff.

I find it absolutely incredible that she's still on Sony, and able to release such music under their banner

It's a full Cardiacsy rock-opera! Not sure it's quite better than the amazing Bob Music, but wow, what a joyride :)

hah, it just popped up in my RYM feed, deal me in

That is because I added it to RYM lol

my man

just got your friend request...browsing the 5 stars and seeing so many records that I've only heard you talk about :)

I've definitely tried to listen to your five-starred records before. A lot of the YMO-affiliated ones are quite hard to find, but I'll definitely give it another go. My list definitely skews British. Hope you can forgive my 0.5-star album :p

Anyway, some highlights are emerging from this - aside from Isn't It Exciting, we have The Rightful Heir and When I Dream In Technicolor. And probably some others - it's hard to wrap my head around it all so far!

Liar and the chicken calls are legit hilarious too

Sound of Silver 0.5 wow! What did that record ever do to you???

It's a bit of an ILX in-joke tbh

I never worked out that frogbs=JAMOOL ffs

The Art Of Bullying probably has the album's best Cardiacs impression (ending in its best Queen impression, lol)

In fact,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQl3TZUmzYM

I've made her her own thread now too

https://zofff.bandcamp.com/album/zofff-1

Zofff - longform psychedelic jam not really in the spirit of Cardiacs, but many familiar faces here including Jo Spratley and Bic Hayes.

Popped up as a BandCamp advertorial today but their content is often kinda interesting, to me it's strongly reminiscent of Monsoon Bassoon or Thingy/Heavy Veg.

https://palmnewyork.bandcamp.com/album/shadow-expert

*caveat* this track at least

oh I like this! good find :)

it fits nicely with my 2017 year of discovering cheer-accident vibe

how has early oingo boingo not been mentioned in this thread? can't think of anything more "cardiacsy"

Idk, they had zero impact in the UK at the time though.

Scouring their first record on Youtube right now and it sounds like herky jerky new wave, Devo/XTC/Split Enz or Bill Nelson's Red Noise.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GrBkJIuKSk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6NmzOcWjw

there are superficial similarities, especially in instrumentation and tempo, but tim smith's composition is way more mindboggling than this, the key is so fluid, and that's a large part of what i understand by 'cardiacsy'

this isn't bad though! btw neil cicierega is a good example of someone who's equally influenced by oingo boingo and cardiacs :)

That Palm EP's very good. Definite shades of 90s Rob Crow bands with some of Battles' 1st album in there too.

Derial:

Ultros, if you *are* working your way through all the Japan shows? I take my hat off to you sir!

oh yeah glad to hear that palm ep getting some ilx love, they've been getting some well-deserved buzz lately.