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Take Time To Wonder in a Whirling World

by Soft Hearted Scientists

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FANTASTIC REVIEW IN TERRASCOPE AUGUST 2018

SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS -TAKE TIME TO WONDER IN A WHIRLING WORLD
(LPs from You Are The Cosmos )

A MODERN DAY CLASSIC
The debut album by Welsh wizards Soft Hearted Scientists was released about ten years ago and now sees its first vinyl release. The album starts with “The A470 Song”, a gently chanted haiku of a song which extols the virtues of said road, the first time I heard this it made me want to take a trip from Cardiff to Llandudno, the route of the road in the title, I finally got to do this a few weeks ago. The song tells of glittering skies, waterfalls and mountains, it’s accompanied by synths and gently strummed acoustic guitars, a terrific opening song.

This is followed by “I Wanted You”, an infectious shuffling song that takes in a billion years on planet earth. “Light Years To Nothing”, a dreaming song of space and time, woozy and slightly exotic, it asks the question ‘who wants to be the last of anything’?

“Siberia”, is superb, a clicking, whirring, cyclical song of hummingbirds, Northern Lights, seven seas, of messages in bottles, but really it’s about lost love.

“Meet Me At The Milky Way”, a brief banjo inflected interlude.

Side two starts with “Rockford’s Return”, it begins with a cuckoo clock, before a sitar, whirling synths and massed acoustics conspire to create a soft psych epic.

“Eyes”, follows, a pretty psych concoction that tells of striving and longing, follow your dreams, just don’t sit around all day watching reality TV.

“I’ll Be Happy When I’m Sleeping”, an amusing tale of life in the middle ages and the comforts that progress has afforded us. “Hawthorn”, an arboreal psych inflected folk song. The album ends with the gorgeous “Drops In The Ocean”.

Amongst the instruments played are omnichord, pine cones, lunar cycles and sazz. Somewhere a cat purrs and we are treated to the ambient sounds of a Cardiff bus.

I love this album and hope that it does well for them. It deserves to be heard and is a modern day psych classic.

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released July 1, 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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