We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
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Artist: We Are ScientistsEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced, Import
CD Release Date: 2008-03-25
Music Label: EMI Int'l
Soundtracks:
- Ghouls
- Let's See It
- After Hours
- Lethal Enforcer
- Impatience
- Tonight
- Spoken For
- Altered Beast
- Chick Lit
- Dinosaurs
- That's What Counts
- [CD-Rom Track]
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Free Music Review: Different... but different is good in this case.
Hit: 5 Stars
This new record isn't the We Are Scientists we were used to. The band has really grown and developed their sound. There are not many bratty pop songs compared to past releases, but rather many brooding, moody tracks... Much more complex as well.
At first the new sound was jarring, but over time it's really grown on me, and that's usually a sure sign that an album has legs. The melodic hooks are still there, the punchy drums remain, they're just steeped in a lot of additional sounds and riffs. Some tracks like 'Let's See It' still start with a strong catchy guitar run, but the vocals are more sing-songy.
There is more of a synthpop influence in the music as well. Something along the lines of a happier New Order with a bit of The Smiths in the melody. Tracks like 'Lethal Enforcer' are straight up new wave.
'Brain Thrust Mastery' is an excellent deviation from the mainstream, and a sign of even greater things to come.
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Brooklyn's We Are Scientists make it to their second album, Brain Thrust Mastery, a man down--drummer Michael Tapper departed the band in late 2007--but with a new sound and a refreshed ambition. While 2005's With Love and Squalor marked them out as The Strokes' preppier cousins, lean guitar-indie with arch lyrics and driving tempos, Brain Thrust Mastery has more than rehash on its mind. It's an album that's both bigger and poppier than its predecessor--see gleaming first single "After Hours"--but also eager to experiment and branch out. The opening "Ghouls" echoes fellow Brooklynites TV on the Radio, a synthetic mesh of ticking rhythms, dubby bass and multi-tracked vocals, frontman Keith Murray singing: "We all recognise/That I'm the problem here", while "Lethal Enforcer" is a sly piece of '80s pop revivalism that somehow channels the smooth synths and echoing drums of Phil Collins without quite tipping over into kitsch. There's the occasional dropped ball here--"Spoken For", a serene, Tropicalia-tinted love ballad is interrupted around the mid-point by some unnecessary, pompous flying-V action--but on the whole, this is smart pop music that's clever but crucially, seldom clever-clever. --Louis PattisonLimited Edition bonus CD includes 7 live tracks from Union Chapel in London, November 23rd.
We Are Scientists shocked themselves and impressed many others with their 2005 debut 'With Love & Squalor', which went gold in the UK (145,000 units) on the strength of the already-classic singles 'The Great Escape', 'Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt' and 'It's A Hit'. Twenty months of near-constant touring culminated in a sold-out UK tour, including two nights at Brixton Academy in autumn 2006, plus a very pleasant Christmas. The band spent 2007 at weight-loss camps, alcoholics' dry-out facilities, and a race car school, yet also found time to pen, record and road-test their sophomore offering 'Brain Thrust Mastery'. If WAS's first album had been far, far better than it was, and of a far more mature style, and if they had then released a limp, unenjoyable second record, and if 'Brain Thrust Mastery were actually their third album, it would be hailed as a "return to form", as "equal to - in many ways an improvement on - the monumental debut".
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