CARDIACS – SOLD OUT
11th March 2026

Following the death of Tim Smith in 2020, it fell to his brother and bandmate, Jim Smith, to decide if work would continue on the album he was finally moving home to complete. Fortunately for Cardiacs fans, he decided it absolutely should.

For many of the songs there was a ton of work to do. Craig Fortnam (NSRO) had worked closely with Smith compiling lyrics from his notebooks and writing arrangements for strings and brass under his guidance. Before his cardiac arrest in 2008, Smith had recorded some of the drums, vocals, bass and guitar parts whilst working closely with bandmate, Kavus Torabi (Gong, The Utopia Strong), but there was plenty left to do. His distinctive production imprint was evident and there was more than enough to go on so along with a tight-knit bunch of friends, Jim Smith and Torabi set about finishing the job. LSD is the culmination of his life’s work and brings all of Smith’s faculties to bear in one place: a unified whole world of experience. Elements of more folk-horror offshoot The Sea Nymphs, his solo work OceanLandWorld and pop-flavoured Spratleys Japs flow alongside distinct references to Cardiacs’ 80s albums and on through to later work like the 1996 seminal album, Sing To God.