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.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 7 April 2014 13:39 (ten years ago) link
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*
― ultros ultros-ghali, Monday, 7 April 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
oh that new SiB song is lovely
― halber mensch halber keks (imago), Sunday, 13 April 2014 00:23 (ten years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 13 April 2014 13:53 (ten years ago) link
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
― tao lin wolf (unregistered), Sunday, 20 April 2014 15:31 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:19 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Sunday, 20 April 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
For no reason, Funzig popped into my head in the middle of a 12 hr flight yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayXBVNPariY
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 April 2014 14:11 (ten years ago) link
I think the last time I listened to these guys was possibly around 1997.
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 April 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 17:56 (nine years ago) link
like, this song's got cardiacs coming out of any orifice you could name
― imago, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 18:14 (nine years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
sleepy people was ultrasound related wasn't it
― imago, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:12 (nine years ago) link
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
― imago, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
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
― everything, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
new Stars In Battledress is str8 awesome
will hear that Chemical Clocks thing soon
― imago, Sunday, 14 September 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
actually the new SIB is probably better than Secrets & Signals, it's that good
― imago, Monday, 15 September 2014 00:07 (nine years ago) link
Chemical Clock reminding me of Jaga Jazzist slightly, except much, much, much better :)
― imago, Monday, 15 September 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
My band were compared to the Cardiacs the other day, which I was kind of pleased about.
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Monday, 15 September 2014 09:15 (nine years ago) link
I've been waiting for that second SIB record since I heard Women From The Ministry almost 10 years ago, their crowning achievement.
― MaresNest, Monday, 15 September 2014 09:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I've heard most of these songs live, so great they finally recorded them though
― imago, Monday, 15 September 2014 10:43 (nine years ago) link
& 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
― imago, Monday, 15 September 2014 14:10 (nine years ago) link
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
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 19:55 (nine years ago) link
Same Gasman that did some stuff on Planet Mu?
― everything, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Indeed
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Same Gasman who was a Cardiacs founder member lol ffs
― Ѿ (imago), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
Oh wait, maybe not. Think I'm confusing him with Cawthra
― Ѿ (imago), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Redbus Noface / Gasman is a helluva mixup, whoops
will check this
Yeah, I'll definitely give it a listen.
― everything, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:05 (nine years ago) link
lol ffs yerself, buggerlugs :)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
The Cardiacs extended family is a giant & knotty thing, worthy of its own discourse, fandom & writing; I make no apologies ;)
― Ѿ (imago), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 20:15 (nine years ago) link
played The Exquisite Corpse Game for my sexagenarian parents in the car today and they liked it so much they borrowed it :)
― Ƹ༑Ʒ (imago), Sunday, 5 October 2014 18:30 (nine years ago) link
"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
― Maggie killed Quagmire (collest baby ever) (frogbs), Tuesday, 7 October 2014 04:41 (nine years ago) link
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
― soref, Monday, 20 October 2014 01:30 (nine years ago) link
that person has lots of interesting videos on their youtube account in an 80s soviet post punk vein, btw
― soref, Monday, 20 October 2014 01:32 (nine years ago) link
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 SproutStuart 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)
― soref, Monday, 20 October 2014 16:40 (nine years ago) link
haha this Ukranian stuff is fucking amazing
― joie de marsh (imago), Monday, 20 October 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
track two is like a bizarro Icing On The World
― joie de marsh (imago), Monday, 20 October 2014 16:53 (nine years ago) link
Thomas one veers more Jaga Jazzist than Max Tundra imo, but it's not bad at all
― joie de marsh (imago), Monday, 20 October 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
this Kazma-Kazma shit is SO. FUCKING. INCREDIBLE
― joie de marsh (imago), Tuesday, 21 October 2014 23:20 (nine years ago) link
http://www.bibbletang.com/funzig/mp3/funzig%20live%20-%20metronomic%20dog%20bark.mp3
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:48 (nine years ago) link
kazma kazma is quite a find
― ogmor, Wednesday, 22 October 2014 13:57 (nine years ago) link
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?
― joie de marsh (imago), Wednesday, 22 October 2014 14:00 (nine years ago) link
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".
― everything, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
Well they def know Cardiacs because there's a #Pronk at the bottom of the info window.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:40 (nine years ago) link
I like it though, the singer really reminds me of somebody, maybe the girl in No Joy?
For me the vocals are the weak link. Live, it doesn't seem to matter because it's mostly a psych onslaught but I did feel like the album was let down a bit by his weak voice (though I still like it). This new track is the best thing they've done so far. The album is downloadable for free from their bandcamp btw.
― everything, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:50 (nine years ago) link