Album Reviews #10 - Sing to God by Cardiacs (or Puckish and the Joy of Pure Folly)
Call this album proggish, call it punkish, call it pronkish, call it whatever you want, it might be any of those things if you are so pleased, but above it all, this album is puckish.
Are you a friend of reason? Or do you just make a truce with it? I don't think there is anything in the entire world as beautiful as this record at all, and everything that is played on this album outmatches the most colorful butterfly, the biggest canyon, the most technically advanced skyscraper, if there is an album that lets you feel how maddening it is to be capable, as almost as if being a deity and in a constant state of eruption, is this album. Understand one thing, there are just things that logic cannot give to you, there are things that intellect cannot grasp, and if there is one thing that this album tells me, is that reason is nothing more than illusion caused by the human brain, reason as a whole is a fallacy. Tell me one thing. What would you do with power? What would you do with the ability to do whatever you wanted to do? Would you do evil? Would you do good? Would you reach towards the end of things until all things shall be well and peaceful? Will you reign over the hearts of men and show them the pain necessary to grow as beings? It is not just empowering and honest to choose evil over good, but it is also hilariously facetious to use evil not to harm but to get a good chuckle. Sing to God in a way is the feeling of having absolute and complete might, of having vigor, but use all this power and strength for the absurd, imbecilic, incongruous and the ridiculous.
I legitimately haven't found music that has ever been as intense and as beautifully provoking and infuriating as the songs found in here, and all of them as a whole are dangerously close to be maddening. Sing to God obliterates all semblance of rational thought with its sheer, unadulterated obdurate beauty. This isn't just music; it's a transcendental odyssey, a siren's call that lures you into the depths of your soul and destroy it in seconds. When you feel this happy, you stop acting as human being, you forget who you are, what you are, where you are, how you are and what you are doing, what you ever did, and what you are going to do, you end on a state of supreme bliss. Why would you be logical when you are in control of the universe? Why would you follow the chains of reason when you are almighty and supreme? You stop following reason and do the most absurd and stupid thing to exist, because you can, and let me tell you something, if you can do something not because of reason but because emotion, even when you didn't gain anything from it, when you didn't get happiness or pain, advantage or disadvantage, good or wrong, you just did it because you wanted to do it and without connecting any sort of events that happened in your life before to do them, that makes you feel free, omnipotent, if you are able to laugh at reason and take all that immense power you have to be puckish, it is the most delightfully exhilarating thing you could ever experience. It is hard to even being to understand how something as good as this exists, I could try explaining it in detail, but I haven't managed to explain it to myself yet.
In Sing to God, each note in this album is a tear in the fabric of reality, each chord a bridge to the divine. If Cosmic Horror is an exploration of the fear of the unknown, Sing to God, is a dance around the elation that exists on what we don't understand. I have said before in other reviews that all humans hide the evil, and we are all, in a way, evil, but imagine that you didn't use evil to destroy or create, but to fool around like a maniac, like an absolute idiot and laugh at purpose and intention, just to laugh along with the absurd. To listen to this album is to experience the shedding of the mundane to embrace the extraordinary and use power not for more euphoria or an extreme bliss, but to use it for folly, it almost feel as if gaining the most infinite energy to end it or create it all and use that same energy for a single chortle! That is what I want! That is what I love about life! This is it! Because that's the thing! You don not even need to be a god to be puckish! To laugh at reason! To find in the absolute supreme joy of innocent impishness! The only thing you need, is to feel that you are able to do it. This album contains the music that expresses everything that I have loved about awareness and existence and comes to me as an inspiration to live further than anyone has ever before, to live as much as I can as an individual and as a part of the whole.
Sing to God is for me truly one of the biggest achievements in humankind, I will defend it and praise it in all its madness, not for a specific reason at all, just out of pure and complete happiness, and if there is something more than I love more than myself, than I love more than my family, my friends, my life, the tastiest food I have ever tasted or anything else, is this. How beautiful is to be able to stop listening to reason and finally be to experience pure vivid and intense amusement? How wonderful is to be able to feel this wicked for no reason at all?
Custom Tracklist
1.01 Eden On The Air 1.02 Eat It Up Worms Hero 1.03 Insect Hoofs On Lassie 1.04 Fiery Gun Hand 1.05 Fairy Mary Mag 1.06 Dog-Like Sparky 1.07 Bellyeye 1.08 A Horse's Tail 1.09 Manhoo 1.10 Hurricane 1.11 Devils 1.12 Wireless
2.01 Billion 2.02 Spinney 2.03 Odd Even 2.04 Red Fire Coming Out From His Gills 2.05 Flap Off You Beak 2.06 What Paradise is Like 2.07 Bell Stinks 2.08 Bell Clinks 2.09 Quiet As A Mouse 2.10 Angleworm Angel 2.11 Dirty Boy 2.12 No Gold 2.13 Nurses Whispering Verses 2.14 Foundling
Running Time: 1h 39m
25/10
