“Is This The Life” was not only the band’s only modest hit but also the band’s most radio-friendly song by a mile — it’s sort of a Cure-ish blend of new wave and post-punk and the only song on this ...

Cardiacs will release their final album, LSD, on double vinyl, CD and as a download through their Alphabet Business Concern label on September 12. The band have also shared a video for the first ...

Yesterday came the very sad news that Cardiacs frontman Tim Smith passed away on Tuesday night (7/21), following a 12-year battle with a “complex and poorly understood” health condition. Cardiacs were ...

A packed Hammersmith Odeon, December 13, 1984. Awaiting their heroes, Marillion fans are growing increasingly impatient with support act Cardiacs, a bunch of outliers led by the charismatic Tim Smith.

Following books on Residents, Ministry and Butthole Surfers, Melodic Virtue owner Aaron Tanner’s attention has turned to the UK’s favourite cult group, the love-‘em-or- hate-‘em Cardiacs. This ...

The cult-beloved British band Cardiacs released Guns, their most recent album, in 1999. For a very, very long time, they’ve been planning a new double LP called LSD. The lead single was supposed to be ...

If you know who Cardiacs are, your response to them generally falls into two camps - those who think they’re the best band in the history of music, and those who wish they had never existed. By all ...

Here’s something I’ve always appreciated about Cardiacs – they are as advertised. If you read about them you will encounter a number of sweeping and clichéd generalisations. "You either love them or ...

Tim Smith, frontman of the influential British cult rock band Cardiacs, has died at the age of 59. Smith started the cult rock band Cardiacs in about 1980 as the lead guitarist and vocalist with his ...

Tim Smith, who has died aged 59, made a bizarre kind of rock music that was so wrong it was right – and his boundless enthusiasm was so infectious it created an army of followers If Tim Smith ...

A terrible beauty was born when the first official full-length Cardiacs album arrived in 1988. Still sounding arrestingly weird and gloriously wonky 35 years later, A Little Man And A House And The ...

I was first exposed to Cardiacs’ oddly compelling world when the video to ‘Tarred And Feathered’ aired on The Tube on April 17 1987. Six musicians wearing old-fashioned vaguely military-style uniforms ...