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Scarecrow Smile

by Soft Hearted Scientists

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    The odd one out in the SHS back catalogue. A collection of home made "Odds and Sods" between the studio albums "Take Time To Wonder In a Whirling World" and "Wandermoon". It was given a very low key release but contains some favourites of mine, like "The Strangest Scene", "The Midnight Dance of the Mexican Vampire", "Return of the Black Dahlia", "The Impossible", and "Garden Song", which was transformed from its dreamy recorded version into a bit of live freak out favourite of the band. The only song on the album to be played live.

    It also gave us the courage to alternate between "Proper Studio" albums and home made albums to show a more raw unadorned side to the band which was honed into a more coherent form on "The Slow Cyclone" and "Golden Omens".

    On the latter two we jettisoned the "Home Demos" tag because these versions felt like the definitive versions of the songs.

    In retrospect, many of the tracks on Scarecrow Smile feel like the finished article rather than embryonic versions to be re-made in the studio.

    For example "Mexican Vampire" has had more BBC airplay than any other SHS song, and has a spooky atmosphere that would be difficult to recreate.

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Effervesce 03:22
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The Visitor 01:20
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Hummingbirds 05:12
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Evil Eye 03:23
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released July 5, 2018

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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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