Waltz of the Weekend, by Soft Hearted Scientists

Waltz of the Weekend

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2)2 Mixing Session Studio Worksheets
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4)Fortune Teller Fish
5)CDR with 4 instrumental versions of album tracks
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*CD with 3 demos from the LONG list of potential songs for the next album - which may grow beyond recognition when the rest of the band play on them and Frank the Wizard Producer is at the desk - you can speculate and try and predict how much they will grow (bearing in mind the 8 minute epic track "Who Loves the Moon?" on Waltz of the Weekend started off as a 2 minute sketch that I wasn't that confident about!)

*4 lyrics sheets from Waltz of the Weekend

*Copies of various doodles/cartoons done in the studio in break times

*Odyssey of Waltz of the Weekend - a typed up explanation of how the album came to be made and the obstacles put in its path by fate and how the long delay in finishing the album actually made it a stronger album

*2 prose sheets

*Copy of a studio worksheet

*A fortune teller fish

*All contained in a plastic wallet

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1.	What Grows Inside the Garden 04:34	buy track
2.	Waltz of the Weekend 06:14	buy track
3.	Sea Anemone Song 07:35	buy track
4.	Rode My Bike 03:54	buy track
5.	Gadzooks! 03:36	buy track
6.	Who Loves the Moon? 07:50	buy track
7.	The Fixer 03:46	buy track
8.	The Things We Make 08:23	buy track
9.	Vicious Vivian 02:56	buy track
10.	Creepers and Vines 07:46	buy track
11.	Venus Flytrap Song 06:58	buy track
12.	Lost Mariners 11:19	buy track

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AT LAST! THE RETURN OF THE SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS!

After quite a long hiatus, not helped by a global pandemic and various unpleasant life events, the Scientists at last return with their biggest and most ambitious studio album yet!

It’s a 75 minute double album wild beast crammed on to a single CD to keep the cost to an outrageous £9.99 for the standard CD.

(ALSO AVAILABLE AT NEW DEDICATED SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS PAGE softheartedscientists4.bandcamp.com)

It features 12 tracks.

Four of these are compact radio friendly psychedelic pop singles with huge choruses. They are “What Grows Inside the Garden?”, “Rode My Bike”, “The Fixer” and “Vicious Vivian”. Each one is stuffed to the eyeballs with vocal and instrumental hooks that take several listens to become fully apparent.

But there are also many tracks that stretch out and enter new territory.
“Waltz of the Weekend” is a psychedelic waltz inspired by a daytrip to Tintern Abbey. It features an outrageously over the top haunted middle section that sounds like Bohemian Rhapsody performed by ghost monks, with Hank Marvin playing surf guitar in another dimension.

“Sea Anemone Song” is a huge heartbroken psych ballad, channelling a lot of the awful things that have happened in the last 3 years, with an end section that gradually disintegrates on an asteroid belt.

“Gadzooks!” is the coda to “Rode My Bike” and starts out as a psych rumble that gets progressively more insane, featuring a sly echo vocal nod to Bowie’s “The Bewlay Brothers”, crazed guitars, a string section, speaking in tongues and an ending FAR more over the top than a Bond theme.

“Who Loves The Moon?” is SHS guitarist Paul’s favourite song EVER by SHS. It’s a multi layered lament to lost love with a haunted, ancient, Disney/Night of the Hunter movie feel, and SEVEN vocal tunes. Cashback!

“The Things We Make” starts as a psychedelic ballad about musical creativity itself, but with verses recounting a haunted evening in North Wales many years ago. Halfway through it falls apart after being hijacked by the ghosts of King Tubby and Lee Scratch Perry and becomes an echo laden effects laden dub.

“Creepers and Vines” is a tongue in cheek “I’ll never get intoxicated again” hangover song that again transforms halfway through into a series of transitions, sections and sound events that might have your head spinning even without intoxicants.

“The Venus Flytrap Song” is a full on story song in which Nathan is unjustly on trial for an unspecified crime, but escape the clutches of a corrupt judge, jury and hangman baying for his blood. It is the most symmetrical song we have ever written. With added ELO vocoders!

Lastly, the longest and perhaps most ambitious song we have ever released. “Lost Mariners” is an 11 minute psychedelic seafaring ghost story sound journey epic, featuring an enormous amount of sound effects, sound events, San Francisco acid rock guitar solos, transitions, and a symphony of analogue synths at the end, hinting at the horror of haunting the seabed.

Frank Naughton produced the album and quite honestly he is a polymath and genius. He even invented some of the special effects on this album.
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released May 16, 2023

Soft Hearted Scientists are

Michael Bailey – bass guitar

Paul Jones – electric and acoustic guitars, backing vocals

Dylan Line – keyboards, electronics, sound effects

Nathan Hall – Lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, electronics, sound effects

Drums on tracks 1, 2, 3, 7 and 12 by Spencer Segelov

Drums on tracks 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 by Frank Naughton

Produced by Frank Naughton at Ty Drwg Studios in Cardiff

Mastered by Gaz Williams in Bristol

REVIEW IN TERRASCOPE JULY 2023
SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS – WALTZ OF THE WEEKEND

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Nathan Hall’s Soft Hearted Scientists make a welcome return; Nathan has been playing with his Sinister Local’s as of late. After 2016’s ‘Golden Omens’, Nathan appeared to have put the band to bed, but luckily for us they sail again. He recorded seven albums from 2017 until last year’s Golden Fleece as Nathan Hall And The Sinister Locals.

The Scientists consist of Michael Bailey – bass, Paul Jones – electric and acoustic guitars plus backing vocals, Dylan Line – keyboards, electronics and sound effects with Nathan - lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, keyboards, electronics and sound effects, with Spencer Segelov – drums on half the tracks and producer Frank Naughton playing drums on the other half, Frank also invented some of the special effects on the album.

Waltz Of The Weekend is deliciously lengthy, 72 minutes on a single 12 track disc, with four tailor made compact radio friendly psychedelic pop singles, one of which ‘What Grows In The Garden’, opens the record in fine style, all heavenly harmonies and swirling synths. The title track arrives draped in languid sitar and reverb, Nathan says of this track “it’s a psychedelic waltz inspired by a trip to Tintern Abbey. It features an outrageously over the top haunted middle section that sounds like it Bohemian Rhapsody performed by ghost monks, with Hank Marvin playing surf guitar in another dimension”.

‘Sea Anemone Song’, starts off sprightly enough, but the subject of domestic gloom waylays it, the song gradually disintegrates towards the final stages, breaking up into the ether. Another of those short, sharp psychedelic pop songs is up next, ‘Rode My Bike’, it’s terrific fun, clever, multi layered and as made as a box of frogs, the following ‘Gadzooks’, utilises a lot of the same lyrics as Bike, but sets them to a completely different melody, strings and some crazy lead guitar are prominent, a similar melody to ‘The Witch’ on Mark Fry’s classic album Dreaming with Alice, is playing merrily away, somewhere in the distance.

‘Who Loves The Moon’, is brilliant, classic SHS, a yearning, multi layered mini symphony, a lament to lost love. After a brief intermission, ‘The Fixer’ arrives and is the third of our four tailor-made, radio friendly, psychedelic pop songs. ‘The Things We Make’, is a musical ballad about musical creativity, it tells of a haunted evening in Wales, many years ago, the song appears to have been abducted by the ghost of Lee Scratch Perry halfway through, resulting in some echo laden effects dub. ‘Vicious Vivian’, is the remainder of our psych pop nuggets, stuffed to the gills with vocal and instrumental hooks. ‘Creepers And Vines’, is another gem of a song, seven minutes of drifty, languid sounds, it’s clever and playful, a series of lovely, gentle melodies, twinkle away.

’Venus Fly Trap’, which follows, is also seven minutes long, a nightmare of Nathan’s imagination , in which he is on trial, faced with a corrupt judge, jury and hangman, all eagerly vying for his blood, it’s quirky and has a queasy melody. We arrive at the end of album with possibly the longest and ambitious song that the band has recorded/released, ‘Lost Mariners’, an eleven minute psychedelic seafaring song, complete with San Francisco acid rock guitar solos, plenty of sound effects and oodles of analogue synth towards its conclusion, lost in the sea mists and far from home, a watery grave on a haunted seabed.

This is a fabulous album; it’s inventive, clever and extremely listenable.

(Andrew Young)

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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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