An upbeat psychedelic pop song bursting with vocal and instrumental hooks as well as vintage synth noises. The music has elements of 1960s psychedelia but with very modern lyrics that are grounded in reality, and electronic elements.

What Grows Inside The Garden?

A fast paced psychedelic pop song with a trippy middle section. The lyrics of the verse recount a frustrating bike ride. But this is just the straw that breaks the camels back. The chorus is a bitter rant against the world that makes Alan Partridge seem philosophical and well adjusted. 

No red carpet
No parade
No key to the city
No big band played
No confetti
No welcome back
No bronze statue
No blue plaque
I don't need 
Any of that junk
I am what I am
A lifelong punk

Rode My Bike

HERE IS OUR NEW SINGLE "THE CREEPS".
It includes premonitions, serpents, lions in Charing Cross,dinosaurs in prehistoric Bethnal Green, and "Cretaceous Childhood memories". A tip of the hat to Air's Moon Safari, but much much darker; Kraftwerk, with added midnight woodland choir, and a moonlit detour around the BBC Radiophonics workshop. 

The Creeps

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

Soft Hearted Scientists

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