🎭 Culture Jun 10, 2026 · John Doran

Cinemaesthesia & Decoding the Big Screen Horrors of Cardiacs’ Sing To God

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Cinemaesthesia & Decoding the Big Screen Horrors of Cardiacs’ Sing To God
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Joel McIver celebrates the 30th anniversary of an album so all-encompassing that it requires an entirely different kind of key to unlock it
Sing To God Vol I & II by Cardiacs
The idea of music that prompts strong unbidden cinematic images when you listen to it has never been explored, as far as I know. Accordingly, I’ve minted the word ‘cinemaesthesia’ – as opposed to cinesthesia – in order to write about the fourth Cardiacs album, Sing To God, released 30 years ago. I could have coined the alte

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