Cardiac Arrests - The Obvious Identity
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Cardiac Arrests (aka The Cardiacs)
The Obvious Identity
Genre: Fucking weird, man.
3.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Visiting Hours
Pip as Uncle Dick but Peter Spoilt it
A merry-go-round of weirdness by a band that ultimately made their own label to distribute their music because who the hell would put this out? Well, maybe Ralph Records but these guys are British and in 1980 I’m willing to bet it was a challenge to get this self-produced cassette to San Francisco. Or out of their cars.
From Wikipedia: "An anonymous member of the band has been quoted as commenting that "the recordings were so shit it wouldn’t matter if they were copied onto washing-up sponges." About 1000 cassettes were produced.”
And it sounds like it.
But that doesn’t detract from the fact that it sounds like a band who’s hero was the Child Snatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
They show actual playing prowess all over this thing, especially on “Cameras” and “Bite 3/a”.
Much like The Cardiacs later work, it’s got moments of sublime brilliance amidst a bakery of weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnzpr5R8iok
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