I have finally learned the whole of Skating by #Cardiacs and recorded myself blundering through it. A lot of wrong notes, but some right ones, but a lot of fun was had learning it. It's a blast to (attempt to) play youtu.be/NGcVsjeQu3c

If you like high quality brain-melting sci-fi you should read this, it's really good and melts your brain, in a good way. And is inspiring some interesting musical processes! #ThereIsNoAntiMemeticsDivision @qntm.org

At a job many years ago I was tasked with finding the whereabouts of a chap with the family name "Hogg" who had not showed up to a meeting. I named this task "CHASING THE HOGG" and no one there found it funny😢 so I just chuckled about it to myself all day 😀🐷

Well this is even more wild than I was expecting. Hugely enjoyable scifi mind-melter. #ThereIsNoAntiMemeticsDivision #qntm

Just found out my music was used on the French show "Les Clefs de l'orchestre de Jean-Francois Zygel" (The keys to the orchestra) - an episode on Ravels Daphne Et Chloe. A rather elegant placement if I may be so bold 🧐

Just found out my track "Final Reckoning" has been used on the France TV documentary "L'Autre Monde Des Dinosaures" aka The Other World of Dinosaurs. Looks awesome! Thank you to Pinnacle Audio!

Cielo has been snapped up by Juno Films for distribution in cinemas across North America in spring 2026 😀 www.screendaily.com/news/fantasi...

Just a little track for prepared piano and drums youtu.be/lsPHxAUveBk

Learning #Cardiacs tunes from the amazing new #LSD album has totally rekindled my love of guitar playing which had dwindled for a long time...such joyous music to play, challenging but it fills the heart! Busty Beez this time...nowhere near Skating in terms of difficulty but its soo much fun.

About 1/3 of the way through learning the insane section in "Skating" by #Cardiacs. Can't play it cleanly up to speed yet, missed and scuffed a few notes but getting there. Can't imagine trying to nail this section in the middle of a gig hahaha

UK folks - sign this thing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

My track "Puzzle Pieces" has been used in the French show "C'est du gâteau" which means "piece of cake" but the UK version is called "Nailed It". The French version is called "Nailed It France" in the UK, but not in France, where it's called "C'est du gâteau" which means "piece of cake".

A hit-and-miss review for Cielo - which is fine of course, but despite that I do want to highlight that this is the third review describing lead actress Fernanda Gutiérrez Aranda's performance as being Oscar-nomination-worthy, and she turned EIGHT during filming.

This one nearly slipped past me! Cielo is playing tonight and tomorrow (15th and 16th Nov) at the Braunschweig International Film Festival #BIFF25 vp.eventival.com/biff/39/film...

I live right by Tottenham Stadium, and they are gearing up for a big event tomorrow, and have been blasting out "In the Air tonight" by Phil Collins..I assume to test the PA at full concert volume. Was indifferent to the song before, but up loud it sounds incredible. Amazing production on it.

Cielo has won the Grand Prize for Best Film at the ARFECINE film festival in Buenos Aires! It also picked up the best actor prize for Fernando Arze Echalar who was magnificent in it, and I'm really happy his performance is getting recognition. And we also picked up some more wonderful reviews!

Still probably the funniest thing I've ever seen...French tv show got together people with unusual laughs..and they triggered each other into a bizarre perpetual motion machine www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Lz...

Billy Bragg calling Graham Lineham a "kamikazi transphobe" has to be one of my favourite zingers in recent years.

Cielo is currently ranking #8 (out of 48!!) in the Feature Film audience award ratings at the Imagine Film Festival 😀 www.imaginefilmfestival.nl/en/awards/ NOICE

COMMENCE IGNITION OF THE EXODODUS

The chords and timings in the chorus of |"A roll from a dirty place" by #Cardiacs are a nightmare #LSD

This is what we made it for 😍

Cielo won the SIGNIS Best Picture award at the FENAVID Film Festival in Bolivia 😍

When my "white" and "male" memberships come up for renewal, I might just let them expire this time, it's getting embarrassing now.

After finding out there's a Vagina Museum in London, all I can think about is this:

Having had time for many re-listens for the songs to settle in, the new #Cardiacs album LSD really is great stuff... tracks that didn't connect fully immediately start to unfurl and reveal their beauty...tracks that felt slight on first listen show their depth...such a rewarding listen.

Think I just saw Ron Perlman coming out of the Paddy Power on Tottenham High Road. Seems unlikely...anyone know if he's got a soft spot for sticking a few quid on the gee-gees?

Another 5 star review for Cielo from the showing at the AFI Latin American Film Festival in Washington DC! "Enthralling. Gorgeous. Just captivating from the get-go, a story you will have no clue as to where it's going. Magical realism in the best way, shades of The Fischer King..."

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More lovely comments/reviews coming in for Cielo from the Calgary International Film Festival/ It's so gratifying to see that it's moving and inspiring people, and that we managed to create something that feels both visceral and magical! Many more festival showing to be announced soon!

Current mood:

Cielo will be playing at the AFI Latin American Film Festival in Washington DC Oct. 5 - plus a Q&A with editor Orlando Torres and producers John Dunton-Downer and Paola Gosalvez 😃 silver.afi.com/movies/detai... #composer

Did not have #Cardiacs entering the album download charts ahead of Cardi B on my 2025 bingo card. Is this timeline finally correcting itself?😀

This is a real movie.

"Lovely Eyes" is a bit of a low-key #Cardiacs classic, isn't it? I love how it manages to be a normal, nice pop song for a whole 6 seconds before exploding into super high intensity Cardiacsiness www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRwe... #LSD - and those strings at the end 😍

Fantastic interview with Alberto Sciamma, director of the film Cielo, which I contributed music to! #composer youtu.be/0XZDhNwfQzE?...

As a challenge of my transcribing skills I wrote out the insane section from #Cardiacs "Skating" - which was surprisingly enlightening. There's a lot of structure and thematic development there for a section that is pretty much too dense to comprehend as audio/a human😅 #LSD

Curious how Pet Fezant from the new #Cardiacs album sounds like medieval music when played on strings! #LSD And is also a complete nightmare to figure out 😂

Going to buy a tiny clock soon, I just need a little time

I love that with #LSD #Cardiacs didn't play it safe, but instead just went for all out unabashed excess...new sounds, new styles, a massive, sprawling, wild ride that had me not able to believe what I was hearing multiple times. Simultaneously the most Cardiacsy album and the least Cardiacsy album.

My local ice cream van man is very popular with the ladies for a guy who goes by the name "Mister Softee"

Cardiacs new album, out today. Few better ways to celebrate than this:

Me listening to Skating this morning #Cardiacs #LSD

Me listening to BUSTY BEEZ this morning #Cardiacs #lsd

Had been spending too much time on my phone recently, and was feeling overstimulated 🥵...so last night I put it away and just spent a few waking hours back in my mind 😊and this melodic line popped into my head so wrote it down and here it is! Just another little string quartet diary entry!

Finally some good news 😀

Finally started tackling my traditional string quartet/quintet versions of the new #Cardiacs material from #LSD! First is Downup on strings :) youtu.be/F-boHFlVwnY - absolute madness, many liberties taken and probably errors made!

Was playing along to the latest #Cardiacs single "Downup" and it was all fun and games until the mind-bending rising-spiral of key changes at the last chorus which made me burst out laughing. Took me back to working out Dirty Boy years ago. Audacious, brilliant and insane songwriting. #lsd #timsmith

It's so easy...be like Indy.