the psych/folk/pop of
Soft Hearted Scientists

CD (2005)









My Kung Fy Rec. Soft Hearted Scientists : Uncanny Tales From the Everyday Undergrowth (UK/WA,2005)****

This is a very strong conceptual acoustic pop / folkpop release, described as a musical voyage in three parts. There's something typically English here too, as a literature foundation background and the perfectly worked out inner expressive structural strength in the musicality, in a folkpop/acoustic mode. The release was previously released in three parts as seperate EP's. The second EP has more indipendent folk leanings and acoustic guitars arrangements. The style of a few tracks goes in the direction of Gorky's Zygotic Minci so in a post-70's feeling, but SHS are much more focused on the tale leading concept of the music, with its own variety and hanging well together. Highly enjoyable.

Audio : "Mount Palomar", "Diving Bell", "Wendigo", "The Petition", "Brother Sister", "The Yongy Bongy Bo", "The Haunted Song", "Many A Monster", "Isabella (Keep Riding The Road To The Sea)","Midnight Mutinies" "At Night The Quarry Glows Like A Mothership", "Black Castles"
or http://www.karmadownload.com/album/?2134275
& http://www.tunetribe.com/Album?album_id=139631
Video of album related single : "Isabella"
Homepage : http://www.softheartedscientists.com
& with audio : http://www.myspace.com/softheartedscientists 
Intro on group : http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/softheartedscientists/pages/manifesto.shtml
Article about live performance : http://adamwalton.co.uk/mysterytour/show_article.php?to_show=152
Description from shop : http://www.thedudesabode.com/
Review of first EP : http://www.nowax.co.uk/Reviews/softheartedscien.html
& http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/softheartedscientists/pages/bethesda.shtml
Review of third EP (top right on page) : http://www.machine-records.com/reviews.html#ss
Review of "Isabella" single : http://www.musicomh.com/singles4/soft-hearted-scientists.htm
Other reviews : http://www.playlouder.com/review/+uncanny-tales-fr/
& http://www.smashmusic.co.uk/shs.htm
& http://www.gigwise.com/contents.asp?contentid=6318
& http://www.101cd.com/Music/info.asp?id=815047&dept=
& http://www.theunbrokencircle.co.uk/album_reviews_10.htm#Bookmark%203
& http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/softheartedscientists/pages/manifesto.shtml


My Kung Fy Rec.   Soft Hearted Scientists : The Midnight Mutinies EP (WA,2006)**°

review will not be added

Audio : "Isabella (Keep Riding The Road To The Sea)", "Midnight Mutinies", "At Night The Quarry Glows Like A Mothership", "Black Castles" video : "Isabella" Label shop : http://www.thedudesabode.com/
Other review : http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/music/sites/softheartedscientists/pages/midnight_mutinies.shtml
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