Cardiacs

Cardiacs is one of those obscure projects that came into being (initially under the name Cardiac Arrest) in all the joyous independent creative brothel of the 1970s after the death of punk. One more. Ultra prolific from the beginning of his career, the band practiced atypical, psychedelic and destructed music like the Rock In Opposition movement, using the energy of punk, the disillusioned and absurd side of post-punk and the freedoms of progressive music. In the 1980s, the band gradually refined its style and personality, and released one of its flagship albums in 1988, A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, on which Cardiacs' creative faculty already reached a very high level, offering titles halfway between flamboyant and vicelard rock opera, and the beauty of cleverly controlled popsongs. From then on, the inspired and original albums, On Land and in the Sea (1989), Heaven Born and Ever Bright (1991), continued until the band took the time, 4 years, from the never seen regarding them, to compose their most ambitious album, Sing To God, grand double record and definitely marking the contours of the individuality Cardiacs. From then on, the band will not come out of anything really spectacular but will stay with its few albums considered masterpieces one of the lances of the destructured and baroque music, like the John Zorn, Patton and other mad enthusiasts of the exploration of madness through rock & roll. Note that the very charismatic Tim Smith, leader of the Cardiacs also acted solo and with some other members of the group in a more pop but rather close project, named The Sea Nymphs. Officially, Cardiacs still exists but no longer gives sign of life and becomes over time a myth of progressive music.