Cardiacs leader Tim Smith spent the last 12 years of his life suffering from a crippling disease following a heart attack. He was too ill to do anything for the first five of those years, but after that his colleagues began working with him on LSD, the album they’d begun in 2007.
Smith died in 2020, but the work continued, and LSD was finally released in 2025 – by which time Tim’s brother Jim had become Cardiacs leader through a slow, organic process.
