With Love And Squalor

Spastic, accessible indie rock from scrappy Hot Hot Heat soundalikes.

Press for We Are Scientists seemingly can't exist without references to The Killers, The Strokes, Interpol, or similar-sounding bands, and to a certain degree, the group's full-length debut, With Love And Squalor, justifies that. The album has plenty of disco drumbeats, bouncy basslines, hooky guitar parts, and…

Despite losing some steam toward the finish, With Love and Squalor marks this threesome as a band worth watching.

So it's 2006, and now that the mainstream seems to have caught up to the dance-punk or post-punk or post-post-punk or whatever you want to call it scene,...