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We're always lost for words when we have to try to write a description of Cardiacs. Every contradiction in the world comes into your head. They are utterly, totally unique - which in these days of post post-ironic irony recycling and tiredness should be enough to make them part of your life. Yes, every band cliché is turned on its head with Cardiacs: don't bands get tired and repetitive after a few years - or at least sell out? Cardiacs are writing stuff that takes our breath away and breaks new ground 20 odd years after their first, home made single. They write tightly structured, often intricate tracks that make musicians worship them. A Cardiacs gig generates the wildest moshpits you'll ever see, mad sweaty people of a bewildering cross-section of ages and musical tastes bouncing up and down in time to twists and turns, wrecking to To Go Off And Things (a total thrash-out that happens to be in 7/8 time), pogoing to the delirious ska of In A City Lining, just plain dancing to irresistible tunes... that's Tim Smith's secret, you see - tunes. Tunes you have to sing along to, even though (if you took them apart) they weren't quite as normal as pop tunes should be... Cardiacs have been described as: fairground music; punk rock; prog rock; beautiful; frightening; deadly serious; total euphoria; ugly; sexy; avant-garde; pop genius; totally genuine; disturbing; uplifting... Let's cut this attempt short, let's just say that they really are all things to all people. Just remember that a ridiculous number of their fans loathed them on first hearing, then (by some mysterious process that we're still unable to fathom) suddenly had to run to a record shop five years later to buy all their albums.

Cardiacs have probably played more Organ shows than any other band. They run their own label - Alphabet - and have more than a dozen albums to their name. We've had the honour of releasing three singles on ORG as well as featuring them on a number of compilation albums and best of all the "SONGS BY CARDIACS AND AFFECTIONATE FRIENDS" album - a beautiful album put together for us by Tim Smith and featuring the more restrained side of Cardiacs and various side projects from the Cardiacs family -

Cardiacs are our fuel.

Hear some here www.myspace.com/cardiacs