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Soft Hearted Scientists are yet another band spiritually indebted to Syd Barrett, dedicated to making music with a sense of wonder akin to the sound of stars flying off the end of a wand. Opener Mountain Delight fulfills that remit perfectly, finding them gazing into infinity over a bed of glockenspiel, acoustic and slide guitar. The Trees Dont Seem To Know That Its September is jocular British music-hall psych-pop, like long hair curling beneath a straw boater, while Tornadoes In Birmingham muses amusingly on how the weather is altogether stranger than it used to be. But no stranger, surely, than the multi-sectioned Westward Leading, an epic expedition evoking the magic dust of an octomyth.