Wandermoon

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SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS WANDERMOON Album released 8th August 2011 on The Hip Replacement “Suburban-dwelling flower children with a taste for the fantastical…. melodies that burrow into your brain like a caterpillar. ” 4 stars, Uncut. "Trust the Welsh to deliver great psychedelia. Clearly Soft Hearted Scientists are drinking from the same well as Syd Barrett." 4 stars, Record Collector, August 2011. Soft Hearted Scientists describe their music as ‘kitchen sink psychedelia’. They might be onto something: this is the sound of flower children with a mortgage. “Syd Barrett could get away with singing songs about goblins and gnomes,” says singer/guitarist Nathan Hall. “Our brand of psychedelia features council tax and second hand cars as well as the usual psychedelic feelings of transcendence.” It also features the real-life locations that inspires the songs, from Nash Point Lighthouse to Garwnant Reservoir Forest Centre near Merthyr Tydfil, Bakewell Woods in Derbyshire and Ogwen Bank near Bethesda. “That’s where it occurred to me that mountains might have a consciousness, a sense of judgment, and that it would take a lot to impress one,” says Nathan. “That was one straaaaange day. The album – the band’s fourth – is named for Nathan’s word for elevation and escape. “When the drudgery of life is biting I escape to beautiful places like Nash Point Lighthouse or a John Steinbeck book like Travels With Charley or the film Stand By Me. They are all Wandermoon. It’s everything im

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