oh I like this! good find :)
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 21:31 (six years ago) link
it fits nicely with my 2017 year of discovering cheer-accident vibe
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 21:32 (six years ago) link
how has early oingo boingo not been mentioned in this thread? can't think of anything more "cardiacsy"
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
Idk, they had zero impact in the UK at the time though.
― MaresNest, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:27 (six years ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GrBkJIuKSkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp6NmzOcWjw
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:47 (six years ago) link
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'
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:56 (six years ago) link
this isn't bad though! btw neil cicierega is a good example of someone who's equally influenced by oingo boingo and cardiacs :)
― imago, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
That Palm EP's very good. Definite shades of 90s Rob Crow bands with some of Battles' 1st album in there too.
― ultros ultros-ghali, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
Derial:
Ultros, if you *are* working your way through all the Japan shows? I take my hat off to you sir!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
oh yeah glad to hear that palm ep getting some ilx love, they've been getting some well-deserved buzz lately.
― The Saga of Rodney Stooksbury (rushomancy), Thursday, 17 August 2017 02:20 (six years ago) link
This isn't pop but I'm figuring something this good will find some love here. Polish jazz/punk group Kurws:
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
― Doran, Monday, 9 October 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
nice! shades of Deep Turtle, except maybe a bit less pop
― imago, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 07:45 (six years ago) link
Like this thanks! Makes me think a little of NoMeansNo or Laddio Bolocko.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 10 October 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
Digging around and found this really cool old track by a Japanese band called the Moonriders, little echoes of Devo, Cardiacs, XTC the usual, not to mention Japan's P Model.
Frogbs do you know these guys?
Had to upload it meself , no trace of it online.
https://soundcloud.com/nowherians/moonriders
― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 October 2017 17:52 (six years ago) link
that was fun
― ultros ultros-ghali, Saturday, 28 October 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
no trace of it? these guys are apparently super-well-known in japan. track title translates as "alphaville". here's the band doing it live in 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRClisLIp_Q
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Saturday, 28 October 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
yes! I know the Moonriders. That's Keiichi Suzuki's band, I'm sure you've heard of him (he does the music for Earthbound). pretty cool stuff, kind of Zolo mixed with cabaret mixed with New Wave.
fun fact, Andy Partridge has a spoken word cameo on one of their albums (a reunion album called Christ, Who's Gonna Die First?). always wondered how the hell that happened.
their albums are a bit hit and miss for me, but they do have one I really love, called Worst of the Moonriders. it's a live one where they go through the stranger parts of their catalogue and radically rearrange some of their most well-known tunes. good stuff.
― frogbs, Sunday, 29 October 2017 03:08 (six years ago) link
I recognise the name Kaiichi Suzuki from Satellite Serenade (famously remixed by The Orb). The original is a lovely ambient fourth-worldy prog enka ballad with that magic steel guitar part. Nothing to do with this thread but it's ace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XIuogHN46U
― Noel Emits, Sunday, 29 October 2017 08:24 (six years ago) link
Depression songs [Started by Week of Wonders (Ross) in October 2017, last updated forty-six minutes ago by JoeStork] 8 new answersUnknown, vaguely Cardiacsy prog-pop that only MaresNest and I actually like [Started by that clitties version of "mr. que" (acoleuthic) in December 2009, last updated fifty-seven minutes ago by Noel Emits] 5 new answers
http://clipart-library.com/images/riLnAXK4T.png
― imago, Sunday, 29 October 2017 09:23 (six years ago) link
https://knifeworld.bandcamp.com/album/buried-alone-tales-of-crushing-defeat
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 29 October 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
XXXXXP - Yeah I read up about them a bit and it's a shame but a lot of the stuff on Youtube doesn't grab me, but I wanted that studio version of Alphaville, which I couldn't find anywhere.
― MaresNest, Monday, 30 October 2017 11:19 (six years ago) link
This track off the new Thumpermonkey EP is an absolute delight IMO:
https://thumpermonkey.bandcamp.com/track/woadscrivened
― imago, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
Zag & The Coloured Beads have their music up on Bandcamp for those seeking some Organ Magazine endorsed, Cardiacs affiliated, late eighties malarkey.
https://zagandthecolouredbeads.bandcamp.com/releases
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 14 November 2017 22:01 (six years ago) link
Oh awesome! I've seen them put on a great show! :)
Heeeeere's something from this year, am currently ascertaining how good it is https://stephenevens.bandcamp.com/album/bonjour-poulet
― imago, Tuesday, 21 November 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
It's better than Stephen Evens, but the Crayola Lectern album can also be filed under 'Cardiacs fan makes decent fan art'. There's a lovely instrumental in the middle and the closing track + outro are super
― imago, Monday, 4 June 2018 07:17 (five years ago) link
I've been banging on about this elsewhere but this is both the most Cardiacsy and best thing I've heard all year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdT1CxS7DEE
― imago, Monday, 4 June 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
lmao @ the airhorny bits, I guess I hear the connection
feels really Bungleish to me
― frogbs, Monday, 4 June 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
last night we went to a gig that was pure Cardiacsy - aside from Tim's royal presence, we had The Display Team doing their thing (with a great new song), Major Parkinson laying claim to Scandinavia's Cardiacsy crown (and its prog crown full stop tbh) with a dynamic and intense presentation....and then, sandwiched in between, was STERBUS.
https://sterbus.bandcamp.com/album/real-estate-fake-inverno
now, the actual live show was a bit patchy owing to the band not really having the full hang of it - but the songs were there, and this new album, being listened to subsequently, is proving so. that goddamn opening track!
update: that goddamn second track! give this a listen everyone
also Sterbus is a very nice chap, we spoke to him at the end and he was extremely lovely. tbf most people in this scene are but he exuded a sort of wide-eyed innocence and enthusiasm that instantly endears a person. remember, this was a guy who was at first just a Cardiacs fan forum poster. now here he is all growed up
― imago, Saturday, 29 September 2018 07:31 (five years ago) link
I've listened the new Sterbus a couple of times so far and it is terrific. Some lovely tunes and lots of invention.
― the sun-dried raisins of muesli (Noel Emits), Saturday, 29 September 2018 08:54 (five years ago) link
Just listened to Baseball by Major Parkinson, fucking wow. Sterbus also sounding good so far!
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Saturday, 29 September 2018 10:48 (five years ago) link
Yeah I hadn't actually discussed them here yet, which was an oversight - I posted that very track to the prog 3.0 thread instead bit this is more their spiritual home I think. The entire Blackbox album is superb, especially the two long tracks, and worth a listen or ten.
― imago, Saturday, 29 September 2018 11:06 (five years ago) link
Their earlier stuff has some great moments too but the last album is really the one where it all comes together
― imago, Saturday, 29 September 2018 11:07 (five years ago) link
Them being Major Parkinson, even, and Baseball being one of the best prog tracks of the decade (if you don't mind that it sounds a bit like, to borrow my own phraseology, Cardiacs and Sleepytime Gorilla Museum fighting to see who can mangle Muse's Knights Of Cydonia the most)
― imago, Saturday, 29 September 2018 11:09 (five years ago) link
Sterbus album is marvellous, as we slide into Autumn this is the kind of stuff I like to hear, along with things like the new Regal Worm and Kitten Pyramid.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 29 September 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
we are being spoilt!
https://armyofmoths.bandcamp.com/album/sorry-to-disturb-you
(AOM guested on the Sterbus album and have followed them out of the album traps by barely over a week!)
― imago, Tuesday, 2 October 2018 05:31 (five years ago) link
bob drake has a new one !!!
https://bobdrake.bandcamp.com/album/lisola-dei-lupi
― dub pilates (rushomancy), Sunday, October 7, 2018 4:06 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― imago, Sunday, 7 October 2018 10:01 (five years ago) link
And now the big one has landed: the new Thumpermonkey! It's not out yet but I got a copy at the album launch last night, and it's brilliant, of course. Some of the best prog of recent years. The title-track is like a doomed-up Gabriel-era Genesis, except even better than that sounds
― imago, Friday, 12 October 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
Still waiting for the new Bob Drake album to arrive, but Uz Jsme Doma's new one is really great.
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Monday, 22 October 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link
New Cyriak video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP-A1s4ikBo
ALSO
you've all heard the Thumpermonkey album by now, but did you ALSO know that there's going to be a Lost Crowns album??
https://www.facebook.com/lostcrowns/
They started this Facebook page today, and things are apparently clanking into gear. Based on seeing them at the 2017 convention...well, it's going to be good
― imago, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
I'm really looking forward to hearing what Richard is doing now. Shame SiB have kinda lost momentum.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:30 (five years ago) link
tbh this might be, and i don't say this lightly, just as good if not better than SiB
― imago, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
https://www.loudersound.com/amp/news/lost-crowns-sign-to-bad-elephant-for-debut-album
More details here. This is probably the most I've ever been hyped for an album, or something
― imago, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:27 (five years ago) link
okay there's another knifeworld, i thought it was a member of the 2-man heavy psych band from the mid-00s in mpls and was quite confused
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:36 (five years ago) link
I'll happily listen to the US one!
― imago, Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:38 (five years ago) link
they are excellent
the record is great the center label on the vinyl has two eyeholes with red/blue plastic so you can use the record as a pair of 3D glasses to look at the cover
http://roaratorio.com/uncategorized/knife-world/
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2018 21:48 (five years ago) link
Permission to get excited, sir?
Permission granted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip75JbrJVzE
― imago, Monday, 26 November 2018 10:23 (five years ago) link
Sounds prertty much like a more fleshed-out SiB. Which is good!
― obnoxious pun (ultros ultros-ghali), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 18:44 (five years ago) link
Looking back, 2018 was a pretty good year for this sort of thing (and I mean that broadly) between Sterbus, Army Of Moths, Major Parkinson, Slunq, Crayola Lectern, 7Shades, Thumpermonkey and probably a bunch more.
Also nice to see Tim's legacy (outside of the bands he influenced) gaining a little traction, did you see that clip of the music students performing one of his early written (but not recorded) compositions? Pretty great!
― MaresNest, Monday, 7 January 2019 11:15 (five years ago) link
If you vote in the EOYs you'll be able to express your enthusiasm even more!
I'd love to see that video BTW - please link!
Incidentally, parallel to this thread's more retrospective gaze I have started, as a replacement for my time-travel concern, the following: Rolling herky-jerky 2019 - for not exclusively Cardiacsy 2019 content - the new NSRO rarities compilation might go there, for instance...but then so might a particularly baroque American indie-rock single
― imago, Monday, 7 January 2019 11:38 (five years ago) link