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
this track comes off like if animal collective were any good
― imago, Friday, 12 December 2014 10:40 (nine years ago) link
http://oninlove.bandcamp.com/track/warz
Just found out about this rather great record tonight and I know nothing about it other than it features the redoubtable Craig Wedren from Shudder To Think and is total catnip to the STT fan I would think.
― MaresNest, Friday, 2 January 2015 00:51 (nine years ago) link
A very good, very Monsoon Bassoon-y band I got hipped to today, liking it lots.
http://listen.perhapscontraption.co.uk/album/sludge-tripe
― MaresNest, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
:/
― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
First thing to mind: "oh no, not them" - terrible quirky kooky burlesque quirksters more concerned with their matching steampunk-lite costumes than their music, which is almost wonderfully annoying and has made me intensely uncomfortable both times I've seen them live, the second time at a relative's work party where they cycled around trying to entertain children, more circus curio than artistic entity...
...unless of course they've changed ;)
Didn't like the last Knifeworld album much either, tbf - very much leaning to the NSRO side of the Cardiacs fallout rn. Have they got any plans?
Sorry to be so harsh but I really do have a thing against this band and I don't wish to sugar coat my feelings - I'm willing to accept they've sorted out their recorded sound at least.
― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
Listen to their Radiohead 'National Anthem' cover and try not to sydh
― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:31 (nine years ago) link
Ah welp, I have no context for this lot or any idea about their stage thing and yes they are definitely a bit derivative, what's interesting - after looking at a pic- is there's not much brass/woodwind on the recordings. Agree about Knifeworld too.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
I'd def like to know what you think about the link above from 2 weeks ago, start with track 2.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:38 (nine years ago) link
Oh, I liked that track and the one after! I then nominated the album for the EOY poll but didn't vote for it. I need to listen to it all in its entirety, may do by the weekend, cheers (am not at home rn)
Hopefully 2015 is a good year for all things Cardiacsy!
― my shoes are deception (imago), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:42 (nine years ago) link
I'm still trying to form an opinion on the new Knifeworld album. The songs are pretty good (especially "Don't Land On Me") and I appreciate Kavus trying to stay away from prog cliches but I think keeping the songs more straightforward in parts kind of exposes what I think is some pretty bad mixing, especially in the drums. On the other hand, I've liked it more each listen.
― Abstinence Hawk (frogbs), Thursday, 22 January 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
There were some really weird mixing choices on the last Knifeworld album, considering Bob Drake is no amateur at that sort of thing. Definitely improves with each listen, though.
Family duties seem to've put NSRO on hold for the time being, sadly. At least we had another excellent Arch Garrison release last year, if anyone missed that.
New William D Drake long player out in March, apparently.
― Pheeel, Thursday, 22 January 2015 21:47 (nine years ago) link
"The first incarnation was founded in Bristol, March 2004. We blurted out avant-rock and psychedelic folk detritus ... The device began as a rock quartet; exploring bendy time signatures, maximalism, free improvisation and spontaneous theatrical outbursts. Herein a fascination with discord and harmony, (surprise and comfort) evolved throughout a feverish period of writing, improvising and performing on the Bristol music scene."
I was hopeful from this timeline/hometown + something about the sound of the track bandcamp randomly selected for me that they were something to do with Safetyword but they're not, are they? I'm afraid I stopped listening and listened to Safetyword instead but intend to revisit Perhaps Contraption again... eventually
― club mate martyr (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 22 January 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
OH - so the 'good stuff' is OLD! Yeah, they followed a dark, dark path. Will listen to the older stuff soon, even though I know what was to come.
― my shoes are deception (imago), Friday, 23 January 2015 01:07 (nine years ago) link