Modern
life is weird! Prolific Cardiff collective's 7th
long player!
It's been a busy few
months for me and I've not always been able to post here as often as
I would have liked. One release I definitely didn't want to let slip
through the net is the latest opus from Soft Hearted Scientists. Hot
on the heels of their recently reissued debut Uncanny Tales From
The Everyday Undergrowth comes Golden Omens, their latest
album of new material, this time on a double CD. Split into 4 parts, it's a song cycle that once again helps us see the world with fresh eyes. This is a band with
a seemingly bottomless well of inspiration from which they conjure up
tunes to delight and entertain us.
There's a Robyn
Hitchcock lyric that goes something like “a sideways glance in a
full on world”. I may have that slightly wrong but it sums up what
Soft Hearted Scientists are all about. Their songs are rooted in the
ordinary and everyday but make you see the world anew, opening your
eyes to the inherent weirdness and absurdity that surrounds us when
we step back and examine what's going on around us. Odd
juxtapositions and associations abound.
Not only that but
musically they continue to come up with the goods. Gentle pastoral
folksiness one minute, into soundscapes and Barrett-esque whimsy the
next. As hinted at on the album sleeve, Soft Hearted Scientists are
the musically equivalent of jellyfish, fascinatingly odd and funny,
they swim beneath the surface, are endurable and ever present, and
might just sting you. Encounter them and life is never quite the same
again. Dive in and swim with them!
Click here for Soft
Hearted Scientists' website.
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