Short Reviews [Soft Hearted Scientists - 2019 - "Please Read Me"]

UK band SOFT HEARTED SCIENTISTS are closing in fast on celebrating 20 years as an active band, and the majority of that time the band has spent in the more secluded parts of the underground music scene at that. Hopefully, with their long time association with UK label Fruits de Mer Records, that will change at some point. Their most recent release is the single "Please Read Me", where the A side is the title track and the B side consist of the song 'Moths Mistook Us for the Moon'. Both of them creations I'd describe inside a late 60's psychedelic rock context, and both of them representative of the band's overall sound to boot. The A side being a more light toned, flowing and summery pastoral venture into the gentle English psychedelic landscapes, while the B side explores a similar territory with a more sparse arrangement and subtly darker undercurrents. The somewhat different alignments of the songs probably a result of the A side being a cover of The Bee Gees, while Soft Hearted Scientists have worked really well to make the cover song coming across as something they may well have written themselves. Both songs are charming and compelling, in a distinctly retro and very English kind of way. Despite the band being based out of Wales. Anyhow, if retro-oriented pastoral psychedelic rock with something of an understated nature to it sounds like a good thing to you, tracking down this single, or just about anything else this band has produced, should be well worth it.