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

that song there^ gets interesting in its last 5 seconds, then ends. that should have been how it started haha

But there's so much going on it! The strings, the tempo shifts, the weird jazzy flourishes. I don't like everything she's done since "breaking out" - she still Bonnie Tylers it up a bit too much on the choruses for my liking - but I'm always intrigued by what she's going to do next.

ok fine, the last minute as a whole was quite something

the EP she did after ^that one reminded me of Dirty Projectors in parts iirc, it was decent

I didn't know about this direction she went in, but it makes sense since her Quietus bakers dozen choices were surprisingly good. I just knew about the earliest stuff and her couple of singles chart pop songs that I didn't like.

Posted about this Lemon Demon album earlier, but actually, this was the right place all along:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LeSFBy2bZU

https://jlarcombe.bandcamp.com/

Lemon Demon of course being Neil Cicierega, the missing link between Cardiacs and Joanna Wang (he loves them, she loves him). Will check out that J Larcombe thing presently...

Please allow me to big-up / draw your attention to Mr Sterile Assembly, particularly the album Transit. Kinetic compound time-sigs, twin basses, sax skronk, some gamelan thing, female / male vocals, "political" lyrics that aren't totally shit. Just ideal and excellent in its own way, really.

http://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/album/transit

This Heaty prog-pop

I mean, it's pretty good! Not remotely Cardiacsy but hey, you got my attention :)

Well, vaguely. They posted the video for Stella on the Cardiacs Facebook page a while back, so they are at least 'aware'. Also toured with Uz Jsme Doma, I think. Or attempted to. But yes, This Heat is a good reference point. I dig it a lot, anyway.

Big Cardiacsy week - new Knifeworld AND new Display Team! The latter is fucking amazing and VERY Cardiacstastic: https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com/album/shifts

I admit I haven't really felt what Knifeworld have been doing since the Clairvoyant Fortnight EP. That and the first album are wonderful though.

What little I've been able to hear of The Display Team seems good, getting heavy Uz Jsme Doma vibes more than anything else.

yeah I'm not 100% on this Knifeworld or the last one, although I did listen to the last one again recently and it was better this time so who knows, they might have become a grower band

I was at The Display Team's album launch the other night, they were really really great and so were Thumpermonkey, whose definitely-going-to-be-incredible album isn't coming for like another half-year ffs

I recently relistened to both the Knifeworld discs I have, Buried Alone is still great, The Unraveling I'm still not 100% on though I think that's mostly down to the production. Just really trebly and quiet in a way that flattens the drums. But it is pretty good because the tunes are really clever, once you start to get into them a bit. "Don't Land On Me" is definitely my favorite. Guess I'll give this new one a listen as soon as it arrives.

Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone is still the best Cardiacsy album of the year, probably. (Best album full stop?) Come on, we can't let a Yank eclipse us all ffs! ;)

I'm a little behind on recent developments, so glad of this thread

The Display Team reminds me very much of The Monsoon Bassoon

^ Yes, I did enjoy that and bought it, it hit all the right buttons and never falls in love with it's own quirkiness

...speaking if which, kinda, recently I got this CD of this weird Japanese band which I rather like but their approach to sensory overload is pretty muddled compared to Cardiacs.

This isn't on the record I have but the sample at 0:16 second mark should be awfully familiar. The video's NSFW btw (snatches of cartoon dick...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK0Zu2B_kak&ab_channel=ncnvid

But this song's legitimately a CHOOON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw6bcGr3Shs&ab_channel=BounDEETube

Fuck I thought I worked out how to not embed things but obviously not

Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone is still the best Cardiacsy album of the year, probably. (Best album full stop?) Come on, we can't let a Yank eclipse us all ffs! ;)

It's been real fun to watch this guy's chief influence go from They Might be Giants to Devo to Sparks to Cardiacs. If this gets serious AOTY consideration (and it should!) I'd be thrilled.

lol @ that sample + what was onscreen while it occurred

You mean Lemon Demon, right? (to ultros)

Cicierega's clearly spent a helluva long time on this record (like, to the extent where his video output has visibly diminished). It sounds absolutely magnificent.

No I was talking about Display Team, haven't listened to Lemon Demon yet

Oh ok! Both might end up in my year-end top 5 TBH, alongside KING, Thumpermonkey and some mad metal

by the way I got the new Knifeworld and I like it on first listen. songs are catchier and more distinct, and the songs are plenty ambitious without being long. if nothing else check out the leadoff track/single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzXVxOT8an0

yah I'm about to give the Knifeworld a full listen

this second Hosome track is great! :D will definitely check them out more

Okay permit me a faint derail in tonality.

Skeletons have a new record out, I'm a big fan of their steez, the record People especially and some people here may dig.

Grandma from 'People'

https://skeletonstv.bandcamp.com/album/people

Track from the new rekkid.

https://skeletonstv.bandcamp.com/album/am-i-home

Here's a Lemon Demon track I've really been digging lately. Feelin' like Sparks could've written this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JniShTWwJn4

OK I finally listened to Lemon Demon, some of it I kind of enjoy and some of it I profoundly hate, but have a weird urge to keep listening to it. Fuck. Must say I can't hear any Cardiacs in it at all, Devo and Sparks comparisons are about right.

New-ish track from the new Bob Drake album, if the whole record is in the same ballpark, I'm so on board.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCX-xhFlSl4

OK I finally listened to Lemon Demon, some of it I kind of enjoy and some of it I profoundly hate, but have a weird urge to keep listening to it. Fuck. Must say I can't hear any Cardiacs in it at all, Devo and Sparks comparisons are about right.

I checked out Spirit Phone and these are almost my thoughts exactly, except I feel a lot more positive about it. There are a handful of songs I find annoying (towards the end of the album, not including bonus tracks), but I like all the rest, and there are a few I absolutely love. And yeah, I don't get the Cardiacs comparisons, but I hear so much other awesome stuff here -- Sparks, Devo, TMBG, Telex, Buggles, Chris Butler, Todd Rundgren, Magnetic Fields...

An article of interest:

http://thequietus.com/articles/20188-kavus-torabi-cardiacs-knifeworld-interview

looking forward to new Bob Drake too

The most encouraging update on Tim and LSD yet! :)

Born out of Eden has been in heavy rotation over here - "A Dream About a Dream" is such a great epic, under 6 minutes that is

yeah that was the standout track for me too!

I think I mentioned Big Evil, a Canadian instrumental band upthread a year or two ago. They have an album coming shortly!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=navOi2Wzg18

https://www.mixcloud.com/interestingalternative/

dunno if this is the right thread for this, but the Interesting Alternative Show with Kavus Torabi, Steve Davis, and sometimes Ben Jacobs (aka Max Tundra) is always a great listen, can't listen to it without a big list of artists to check out. track selection is all over the map (as you might expect) but I guarantee you'll hear something you like in there.

^^^yes this is a great heads-up, they have a formidable collective taste

I came here however to post this

https://thedisplayteam.bandcamp.com/track/epitaph

...surely one of the greatest cardiacs/heavy prog mashup efforts in the history of man

late '70s scottish prog band chou pahrot. how did i not hear about these folks until now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzOYv8udVrk

this is sweet, loads of opposition for yer rock

doesn't have the cardiacsy melodic gamechangers but it gets the 'spirited henry cow fans' thing down to a tee

doesn't have the cardiacsy melodic gamechangers but it gets the 'spirited henry cow fans' thing down to a tee

― imago

speaking of "spirited henry cow fans", have you heard radar favourites? mid '70s band with the underrated g.f. fitzgerald and charles hayward.

not yet! charles hayward always worth hearing in any guise tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trj2ZLebWnM

Cloud Becomes Your Hand. Saw them acknowledge on their Facebook page that being played after Cardiacs on BBC radio was 'appropriate'. This doesn't quite have it but I still really like it.

Maybe it's just the video, but In a weird way it puts me in mind of this track from Super Best Friends Club, which was a trail from their new record that hasn't arrived yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJCcw3YlIc

otm with the visual poetry! I'm sure some of the band members are even interchangeable. It's a good song too. Will look out for the album.

For some reason the video is truncated, omitting a lovely sung section and coda, it's on Spotify though.

Yeah I was pretty stunned by Chou Pahrot on one of the Glasgow threads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=771mc4eFiaQ

aaaaaahhhhhhh

i might give them their own thread tbh, this is too much