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Release Year: 1996
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Insect Hoofs on Lassie
The term “acquired taste” was invented to describe bands like Cardiacs. This band of Brits specializes in a hyperactive blend of punk, progressive-rock, and circus-music. Their songs, featuring densely-interwoven musical themes and whiplash changes, frequently evoke the feeling of a mental-disorder. With “Lassie” — not the band’s most accessible track, nor one of their most forbidding ones — bandleader/vocalist Tim Smith provides a lyric which finds deep truths in a bizarre story about a boy playing God, fashioning his own personal version of a pop-culture obsession. In another room, I hear Depeche Mode singing, “Your Own… Personal… Lassie”
The term “acquired taste” was invented to describe bands like Cardiacs. This band of Brits specializes in a hyperactive blend of punk, progressive-rock, and circus-music. Their songs, featuring densely-interwoven musical themes and whiplash changes, frequently evoke the feeling of a mental-disorder. With “Lassie” — not the band’s most accessible track, nor one of their most forbidding ones — bandleader/vocalist Tim Smith provides a lyric which finds deep truths in a bizarre story about a boy playing God, fashioning his own personal version of a pop-culture obsession. In another room, I hear Depeche Mode singing, “Your Own… Personal… Lassie”