The Good Natured were formed in 2008, by Berkshire schoolgirl Sarah McIntosh, who was the songwriter and front-woman, alongside her brother Hamish McIntosh on bass, and George Hinton on drums. Following a couple of self-relreased singles in 2008 and 2009, they released an 8-track mini-album titled 'Your Body Is A Machine' through Fastcut Records in Japan only, and following this they signed to Parlophone/Regal in 2011, releasing their first EP, 'Skeleton', that year. Reviews commented on Sarah's compellingly mature command of the nuances of serious pop music, combined with the darker, and often more sensual, emotional and lyrical content of the gothic. The band had been making a name for themselves with their early EP's, and in particular with their cover of Sufjan Stevens' 'For The Widows In Paradise', which they reworked as 'For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti', and they'd recorded their debut album for Parlophone in 2012, but before it could be released they were dropped by the label in 2013, and 'Prism' was shelved. After this disappointment the trio of Sarah, Hamish, and George became the more upbeat, pop-oriented Lovestarrs at the beginning of 2014, but Hinton left in 2015, and so Sarah & Hamish then successfully crowdfunded a pair of EP's and an album. In 2017, after the album's release on a label that promptly went defunct, the duo rebranded again, releasing and re-releasing selected tracks on streaming services under the name Sazzie. To see how they got to that point in their career, here is the abandoned 'Prism' album from their first band The Good Natured.
Track listing
01 Your Body Is A Machine
02 Handprints
03 Sirens
04 5-HT
05 Lovers
06 Fire In The Back Of My Head
07 Skeleton
08 Arcade Love
09 Sting
10 Video Voyeur
11 Wolves
12 Dreaming Of Your Love
