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Soft Hearted Scientists are a Cardiff based psychedelic collective who have released 8 albums so far 

Uncanny Tales From The Everyday Undergrowth - 2005
Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World - 2007
Scarecrow Smile - 2009
Wandermoon - 2011
False Lights - 2013
The Slow Cyclone double album - 2014
Golden Omens double album - 2016
Waltz of the Weekend (2023)

The music tends to be an intricate mixture of all types of guitars and any instrument with strings on it, as well as organs, antique synthesisers, and drum boxes and real drums.   

Most things have been used for percussion, from doors to cat purrs to pots and pans and ping pong balls.  

The band members like The Byrds, Love, the Beach Boys, Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd, Neil Young, Kraftwerk and much much more besides. 

Reviews for past albums

“A new legal high is unleashed – 8/10” – NME

“Mind bending” – Word Magazine. 

“Absolutely amazing” – Claire Sturges, XFM radio

“A beautiful, warm, sparkling collection of songs”, Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1

“A magical little fairyland of a record” – Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

“Cloudy chants, electro squiggles and instruments we couldn’t even begin to name neon highlight the campfire brilliance of SHS’s choruses” – Jamie Fullerton, NME

“Inspired storytelling set to melodies that burrow into your mind like a caterpillar – 4 stars” – Louis Pattison, Uncut magazine

“A little bit of sanctuary in a relentless world” – Drowned In Sound

“The equivalent of finding a pot of gold at the bottom of the garden” – Western Mail

"5 stars out of 5 (Golden Omens) - they just get better and better", Shindig psychedelic magazine, July 2016

"Unquestionably major talents" - BBC Radio 2

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