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I Wanted You |
1st October 2007 |
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Tune in to this video for I Wanted You: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwcB53M0h0E This video was made by microfilms and the track is taken from our new album Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World. |
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Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World |
17th September 2007 |
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Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World is available now on CD - from all psych-friendly shops! The CD version is in a lavish pack with a spooky lyric booklet. The album clocks in at a sprightly 45 minutes and richochets between rockabilly celebrity-savaging protest moon pop (Eyes), space choral music (Meet Me At The Milky Way), electronic Gregorian Chant (The A470 Song), Sly and the Family Stone funk (Rockford’s Return), one stadium sized, singalong lullaby - and only one because stadium gigs are the Devil’s work (Drops In The Ocean), mournful meditations on mortality, defiant middle fingers to mortality (I’ll Be Happy, I’ll Be Sleeping), and a duet with the real Northern Lights made possible by a studio interpreting device and satellite link up (Siberia). Last but not least there is an eerie Arctic lament about loss of identity and the tricks time plays on us, which transmutes into a ferocious acid rock “wig out” which clocks in at just under 10 minutes long (The Caterpillar Song).
Buy it from your local independent shop or online.
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Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World |
10th August 2007 |
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Our second album is called Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World. It’s available to download from all good digital services now. (Bleep | eMusic | iTunes | Playlouder) If, like me, you prefer to have the CD, then despite some false starts due to unfortunate unforeseen events occurring, we can promise you that it will be available in August in all of its Edgar Allan Poe red, miniature gatefold glory. It will have a spooky little booklet inside too.
The tracklist is: |
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Light Years To Nothing |
21st May 2007 |
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Light Years To Nothing is our new digital-only single. Out now. |
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Hello there! We are very happy to announce that our new single is called Siberia. It features a lovelorn duet between Nathan and the Northern Lights, and features hummingbirds, bonsai trees and Roman ruins and has lots of sparkling sounds on it to make your head light up and make you all luminous, which can be a positive benefit in these cold dark winter months. It's being previewed on our Myspace page right now, and is available to buy on Monday 2nd April 2007. And there's plenty more where that came from! Expect 2 more singles and then the album in June - Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World. We are so excited! Join the excitement!
Yours, |
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Recording |
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Hello patient people Nathan here. Throughout July and August we have been up to our necks in strange instruments and the recording of our new album Take Time To Wonder In A Whirling World. New songs include Eyes which demands that we be brought "the severed head of reality TV, assassin of intelligence, killer of mystery", while theremins and space ship noises whoosh and moan on the fastest and most upbeat celebration of bohemianism we've ever put to tape. Its our lop-sided wonky anthem for the outsider. Meet me at the Milky Way sounds like a 21st century update of the original 1966 theme to Star Trek with a wordless choir drifting past the Crab Nebula. Hawthorn is a delicate little ancient folk blossom recorded in a church for spooky reverberating ambience. Rockford's Return was an instrumental but now seems to have evolved into a Sly and the Family Stone singalong of the album title with more than a hint of "the funk" (What?!) in its blood, not to mention the band stamping on a horizontal door for percussion in a ridiculous clog dance meets Laurel and Hardy stylee, painful face slaps and finger in yer mouth pops (I didn't realise you don't have to nearly detach your face to make those noises - the other two didn't enlighten me until after recording. Don't say I don't suffer for my art.) We also have the spooky Ancient Egyptian monk chant A470 song which involved us all singing the word "Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn" around the same microphone for 5 minutes in such an elongated chest vibrating way and with just a second to catch breath between each word that we nearly passed out on the studio floor. Oh the drama! There are at least 2 ethereal cousins of Mount Palomar heartbreakers on this album in the shape of Light Years To Nothing and I'll be Happy, I'll Be Sleeping. The Caterpillar Song is so spooky that I had a sort of panic attack recording the vocal. I kid you not. Fresh air was required before I could face continuing with the creepy little thing. Shudder. Harpsichords, banjos, hammond organs, omnichords, mandolins, theremins and analogue wobbly synthesizers and even a kazoo show their faces on the album. All in all 14 songs which have a lot of subliminal sound stuff on some of them so that you'll be noticing new things in the songs for months after first hearing them. Summer of course, as a result, went by in a microflash - far too quickly - but this album just had to burst out of us so we were willing to lock ourselves away to get the job done. Mixing a zillion ideas into a coherent whole will occupy us until at least the end of October. Yikes. The album will probably land in the first quarter of 2007! In the meantime keep checking here for updates and the occasional free home demo recording. See you, Soft Hearted Scientists |
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