Stumbled across this a cappella (or pronkappella as they put it) version of Sing to God if that’s of any interest to anyone!
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Bloody hell! Impressive commitment there. They’ve even done Quiet as a Mouse!
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They’re currently working on doing the same for Guns.
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I was surprised too - it’s a pretty insane thing to take on (with or without their limitations)!
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Opinions?
Not got through it all yet! Deffo some good/interesting moments on it. But I felt a bit overwhelmed by it at first, haha.
The first few tracks felt like AI doing cardiacs to me, just something mechanical in it that I can’t really put my finger on. Blue and Buff onwards feel much more interesting and natural. Volab and Skating are brilliant.
Only one listen in mind
Going to give it a first listen tomorrow and expect to feel a bit confused/nonplussed at first as that always happens to me with new Cardiacs!
This is quite a good way to describe some of it, yeah. I felt a bit like that about Woodeneye on first listen, but watching Kavus do his playthrough and talk about it, added the humanity back into it. I guess the weird thing is, is that the alien/uncannyness about Cardiacs could only really be human back in the day, but now we live in an era where that kind of thing is often done with AI/computer trickery so it’s less impressive or something.
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Too early to get a good grip on this record, but I had it on shuffle and the mid section of Skating (around 3 minutes in) is absolutely demented in the best possible way.
Just how do you even write something as ridiculous as that.
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I haven’t listened to it all, and maybe it’s because I’m deliriously ill, but I’m finding it really fucking moving to just hear it. All these people have united to bring a colossal oddball wonder back from the brink of oblivion, and it really is a testament to how enchanting Tim Smith was/is/will always be. The slight uncanniness I put down to it coming from that place in-between.
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Hope you’re feeling better soon.
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Gave it a first spin this morning.
It’s a hell of a piece of work they’ve done assembling that. It’s much warmer sounding than earlier records, Tim seemed to favour a more trebly high production and programmed drums. This feels more
organic or something. Very rich. Maybe less quirk going on - there’s no little bits of fat off vocals between songs or ‘Quiet as. Mouse’ type skits or whatever so on first listen it felt like one long track to me in a way. They’ve done a great job with the vocals I think. The actual melodies and vocal arrangements all feel very Tim. I did expect more female ‘choir’ type backing like on Ditzy Scene. Sleeve notes are very thorough, dispelling a lot of the secretive magic of Cardiacs but that’s ok I suppose. No individual tracks jumped out at me on first listen - it was more one long consistent piece to me like I say. We’ll see how that changes going forward. Not sure what else to say at this point.
Tim used to say ‘it’s just tunes, innit?’. They’re really good tunes.
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Ahhhhhhhh!
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This will be amazing. The lineup utterly justifies calling it Cardiacs. Like the shows last year.
Did anyone get tickets for London? I forgot till this afternoon and now it’s saying there’s none. 
Absolutely gutting.
It looks like SeeTickets have still got London on sale?
Hope you get it sorted
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They’re still available. If not use Ticketweb. I am reliably informed it has sold really well today and will sell out pretty quick, but tickets are definitely still there as I type.
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Oh jeez okay, I’m on it!
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