Monday, February 20, 2012

Cardiacs - Archive Cardiacs

Odd punk-prog, definitely an acquired taste. Highly layered and spastic yet containing a distinctive thread of musicality throughout. "The mix is almost head-spinningly overloaded at times, with tiny little voices and distant exclamations vying with saxophone parps, pots and pans, and fine-tuned kitchen sinks rattling around. All this detail, though, is cleverly orchestrated chaos that never forgets that it is there to embellish the songs, and it never drowns them out." I've seen them described as a mix of Frank Zappa, The Kinks and Devo, which comes pretty close. Just listen to the damn thing. You can always delete it if you're not hip to it.



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