LSD

by Cardiacs

LSD cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 19 September 2025
  • Label: Alphabet Business Concern
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:20:02
  • Community rating: 3.69/5 from 14 ratings

Artists on this release: Melanie Woods, Dawn Staple, Bob Leith, Jim Smith, Kavus Torabi, Sharron Fortnam, Claire Lemmon, Tim Smith, Cathy Harabaras

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The final Cardiacs studio album, 'LSD' is a posthumous work completed over a decade after frontman Tim Smith's debilitating 2008 stroke and subsequent death in 2020. Based on Smith's final compositions, which he communicated non-verbally, the album was meticulously realized by his brother Jim Smith and a wide cast of collaborators including Kavus Torabi and Mike Vennart. The production blends Tim Smith's last original vocal recordings with intricate arrangements and massed choral vocals designed to emulate his singular style, creating a work that fuses elements of punk, progressive rock, and psychedelia.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, progressive, eccentric, unpredictable, idiosyncratic, guitars, dissonant, melodic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Men In Bed (03:38)
  2. The May (02:57)
  3. Gen (03:43)
  4. Woodeneye (03:19)
  5. Spelled All Wrong (05:10)
  6. By Numbers (04:19)
  7. The Blue And Buff (02:51)
  8. Skating (07:44)
  9. Breed (03:11)
  10. Volob (03:53)
  11. Busty Beez (08:59)
  12. Lovely Eyes (03:39)
  13. Ditzy Scene (06:40)
  14. Downup (04:30)
  15. A Roll From A Dirty Place (03:24)
  16. Made All Up (05:13)
  17. Pet Fezant (06:52)

Credits

  • Tim Smith - voice, guitars, keyboards, music, lyrics, producer, compositions, play, guidance
  • Jim Smith - bass, vocals, lyrics, producer
  • Mike Vennart - vocals
  • Rose-Ellen Kemp - vocals
  • Kavus Torabi - vocals, guitars, ebow guitar, lyrics, producer
  • Jon Poole - guitar, vocals
  • Claire Lemmon - vocals
  • Melanie Woods - vocals, percussion
  • Sharron Fortnam - vocals
  • Cathy Harabaras - percussion, singing
  • Dawn Staple - percussion
  • Jo Spratley - vocals, lyrics
  • Bic Hayes - guitar, lead vocals
  • Chloe Herington - woodwind, saxophone
  • Jane Kaye - vocals
  • Craig Fortnam - vocals, glockenspiel, percussion, brass arrangements, string arrangements
  • Bob Leith - drums, vocals
  • James Larcombe - piano, keyboards
  • Stephen Gilchrist - extra drums
  • Suzanne Kirby - vocals, lyrics
  • Rob Crow - drumfuckery
  • Emily Jones - lyrics
  • Adam Noble - mixed by
  • Frank Arkwright - mastered by

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