Cardiacs: Classic or Dud?

Adjacent, but still worth posting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx1H9w4nUqY

aaaaaaahhhhhh so so good. YOUR MOVE CRAIG

literally the two faces of 'how to make breakup music' - craig going full 'the sea shall claim the land' mope-out, and then this, lol

both of these songs are great. is this the "solo album" spoken about here is that something different (always kind of hard to acertain the extent of james larcombe's role in the tonne of bands he's involved in - seems more as a player and arranger or other people's material?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcJgpWF_Bh8

i'm a bit parasocially sad if i'm understanding the context correctly though :(

You managed to not pick that up from Ark, the album with the most just-divorced energy maybe ever, lol

i've love his music but i must admit it's not really something where i pay any attention to the words as anything more than a mood... i just assume he's always extolling the virtues of some kind of antediluvian Angleterre landscape or that it's a setting of a romantic poet doing the same thing :)

*looks at the song titles and listens to the first 20 seconds and Ark* oh...

You can sort of understand the whole thing from comparing that album to this new song, as I say. Or at least, you can damn well tell who required it be the case

Anyway, this is a really lovely interview, thanks!

I was asking James about the record yesterday and it was apparently made quite a while back, so much so that he had completely forgotten that he sung on the b-side.

Apparently there's an NSRO coming soon too. Hopefully Craig's got a bit of his pep back (mind you, I A Moon was quite a downbeat album and that worked out pretty well)

I think he's pretty consistent, the guitar instrumentals record and all the little things EPs and whatnot, that he was making and releasing post-lockdown have been great, still listen to Ark all the time.

Oh, quite a lot of his moon stuff was amazing yeah

I just mean I hope he's a bit happier!

I was completely unaware of The Cardiacs, despite having worked in a record shop and being involved in college radio (US) in the late 80s and early 90s. Yesterday I was idly following this thread, and then noticed that the friend of my 20 year old son was wearing a Cardiacs t-shirt. He (age 20 also) described them as “sort of prog punk”.