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

Like this thanks! Makes me think a little of NoMeansNo or Laddio Bolocko.

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

that was fun

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

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.

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

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https://knifeworld.bandcamp.com/album/buried-alone-tales-of-crushing-defeat

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.

This track off the new Thumpermonkey EP is an absolute delight IMO:

https://thumpermonkey.bandcamp.com/track/woadscrivened

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

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

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

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

lmao @ the airhorny bits, I guess I hear the connection

feels really Bungleish to me

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

I've listened the new Sterbus a couple of times so far and it is terrific. Some lovely tunes and lots of invention.

Just listened to Baseball by Major Parkinson, fucking wow. Sterbus also sounding good so far!

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.

Their earlier stuff has some great moments too but the last album is really the one where it all comes together

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)

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.

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!)

bob drake has a new one !!!

https://bobdrake.bandcamp.com/album/lisola-dei-lupi

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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

Still waiting for the new Bob Drake album to arrive, but Uz Jsme Doma's new one is really great.

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

I'm really looking forward to hearing what Richard is doing now. Shame SiB have kinda lost momentum.

tbh this might be, and i don't say this lightly, just as good if not better than SiB

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

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

I'll happily listen to the US one!

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/

Permission to get excited, sir?

Permission granted!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip75JbrJVzE

Sounds prertty much like a more fleshed-out SiB. Which is good!

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!

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

Good to know, ta!

Here is that thing, Piffol 100 Times...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M54CuOd0yU4

https://michaelcouch.bandcamp.com/releases

That was pretty good!

Yeah, I thought so too, shared out by Sterbus on FB today.

Aight hive mind, I need a hand, where to start with Joanna Wang?

you can't go wrong with either Bob Music or House Of Bullies!

ty LJ!

Let us know how you get on with her!

Wildo!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VN8fkUzGUM

if you speed the new Futureheads single up to 1.25x it sounds pretty Cardiacsy

is this the thread where I post that I'm going to see Steve Davis's prog band with one of Monsoon Bassoon tonight? after they play live there's DJ sets from Stevie D and Graham Massey from 808 State.

It certainly is! Let us know what you thought...

I was into it tbh. Drony analogue synth stuff with occasional bagpipes. Maybe a bit like Tangerine Dream or Cluster?

David Tibet was there, I guess he knows one of them. Graham Massey is DJing next then Steve Davis but I dunno if I'll hang around that long