CARDIACS – BABY HEART DIRT 7″ – Nr MINT UK 1989 INDIE PUNK PROG TIM SMITH

Cardiacs – Baby Heart Dirt
(The Alphabet Business Concern Records  1989  ALPH011)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles at the very start of each side)

Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Cardiacs were an English rock band formed in 1977, originally as Cardiac Arrest, led by Tim Smith. Noted for their complex, varied and intense compositional style and for their eccentric, theatrical stage shows, they have been hailed as an influence by bands as diverse as Blur, Faith No More and Radiohead.

Cardiacs have released eight studio albums plus a number of live albums, compilation albums and singles between 1980 and 2007, and are best known for the 1988 minor hit single “Is This the Life?” They are also noted for attracting strongly diverse responses: they have remained one of Britain’s leading cult rock bands during their four-decade-spanning career, but have also attracted virulent critical attack (including a lengthy editorial ban from the British music magazine New Musical Express).

The band ended following the 2008 hospitalisation of Tim Smith after a heart attack and seTries of strokes and his subsequent death in 2020.

“Baby Heart Dirt” is the first single from the second album by Cardiacs On Land And In The Sea.

Track listing

7″

Lineup

• Tim Smith – Guitar and Vocals
• Jim Smith – Bass
• Sarah Smith – Sax
• William.D.Drake – Keyboards
• Dominic Luckman – Drums
• Tim Quy – Percussion