Soft Hearted Scientists announce brand new single 'Wonder Girl' released 29th August via The Hip Replacement
Taken from the new album “The Phantom of Canton”.
Soft Hearted Scientists are a Cardiff based band who can loosely be described as psychedelic, in the sense that they create a technicolour sound using a huge variety of instruments and sound effects, whether guitars or vintage keyboards. The idea is to transport the listener to a better place, whether that’s on a 3-minute action packed single, or a 10-minute multi section epic.
Their influences include everything from The Beatles, Beach Boys and Kinks to The Beta Band, Super Furry Animals, 1940s big band music and electronic music. Nothing is out of bounds. It all gets thrown into the SHS blender.
The band has had great press reviews and radio play on BBC 6 music shows such as Cerys Matthews, Gideon Coe, and Stuart Maconie’s Freak Zone.
“Wonder Girl”
A lovestruck song featuring half an album’s worth of hooks, Motown and surf guitars, celestial humming choirs, a sudden mood change middle section, and the whole thing bounces off the walls with energy.
There are shades of The Beach Boys, The Kinks, ancient Disney film songs, and circus and vaudeville music in this track as well as many obscure 1940s songs (singer Nathan falls asleep every night to such tunes so they must be having a subconscious effect). It crams 80 years of musical genres into just over 3 minutes 30 seconds.
The Wonder Girl in question may be real, an ideal, a ghost from an old photograph, or she might just be a product of wishful thinking.
'Soft Hearted Scientists' Online
https://www.softheartedscientists.com
https://softheartedscientists4.bandcamp.com/album/the-phantom-of-canton
