Brain Thrust Mastery
After the modest success of 2006's With Love and Squalor, We Are Scientists again pursue surface thrills through self-deprecation and uptempo modern rock about girls and embarrassing drunkenness.
It's generally easy to figure out which bands are coming from a genuinely creative place and which are avoidable bandwagoneers, but every once in a while, along comes a group whose seemingly questionable intentions are outweighed by a pile of great songs. One enjoyable dance-rock album could be passed off as a fluke,…
Reduced to the core duo of singer and guitarist Keith Murray and bassist Chris Cain, Brooklyn's We Are Scientists successfully make the next step implicit in the new wave revival of the early 2000s.
The album eschews the scenester party-and-sex themes of With Love and Squalor for more grown-up subject matter.
After dropping their major label debut, With Love & Squalor, hitting the road almost nonstop, and losing drummer Michael Tapper, We Are Scientists are...