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Mute Effigies Soundtracks

by Nathan Hall and the Sinister Locals

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    MUTE EFFIGIES SOUNDTRACKS
    This is a spin off album from “Effigies”. For years people have told me that the multi layered music we write has a soundtrack feel to it. It crossed my mind through the years to do instrumental remixes of all the Soft Hearted Scientists albums, simultaneously with the parent albums, but I then always got sidetracked diving into the next album.

    Working on an album usually exhausts me, and the thought of immediately revisiting it always makes me feel slightly nauseous. This time I thought I really should do it. So with sick bag in hand just in case, I worked on instrumental versions with producer Frank Naughton. It turned out to be unexpectedly enjoyable and almost effortless.

    Originally, this remix was made just for the listening pleasure of the band members and our friends and family, and, against massive odds, to seek placement of the instrumentals with publishers who could try to find us some soundtrack work.

    However, after a few playbacks, the instrumental version took on a life of its own. Unexpectedly it worked in its own right as a complete album, as a kind of (worn out cliché alert) soundtrack to an imaginary film. Sorry, but it's true.

    Perhaps it was just a defence mechanism, as the chances of a band of our small cult status getting music placed with TV and film production companies are very small indeed. Smaller than a Bluebottle's smartphone.

    So I jumped the gun with a pre-emptively bitter strike worthy of Alan Partridge, and decided that it IS a soundtrack with or without an existent film. (I can make it with our without the BBC etc.)

    I find it very good to listen to while driving, or relaxing on the couch stroking my cats, or cooking pasta, or strangling recidivist unrepentant allotment thieves who refuse to beg for their lives, but instead say “You ain't got the guts mate” a little too smugly (while also refusing to hand back a stolen marrow and bag of compost) and then stuffing their skins with straw to make scarecrows.

    It seems to work well in all these settings.

    I hope you will find it soundtracks your activities equally enjoyably, whether wholly lawful, or occupying the grey area of vigilante work.

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This is the instrumental version of the parent album "Effigies". Most of the vocals have been removed so you can

a)sing along if you know the parent album, or

b)make up your own tunes if you don't know the parent album and you think you can come and have a go because you think you're hard enough, or

c)imagine a film the music might accompany. A really good film. No Hollywood Hogwash.

Except for Track 13. Track 13 is an Anti Instrumental. It's all vocals.

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released December 2, 2017

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Nathan Hall and the Sinister Locals and Soft Hearted Scientists Cardiff, UK

The music mixes psychedelia with baroque touches, and analogue electronics and seeks to create the same confusion of the senses that a prime Beach Boys track does. Is it summer or is it Christmas? Neither. Its both simultaneously. The lyrics walk the dark side of Sunny Psychedelia Street and know that all is not well with the world. Burning effigies and suicidal Ice Road Truckers all feature. ... more

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