We Are Scientists – ‘Lobes’ album review


Written over a stretch of two to three years, We Are Scientists’ eighth album ‘Lobes’ finds the New York duo exploring new sounds and directions with confidence and glee… The synthy toe-tapper ‘Operator Error’ opens the album with rhythmic and hypnotic statements – ‘It’s all a a game of confidence’; ‘You kwwp on saying you…

We Are Scientists – ‘Huffy’ album review


We Are Scientists return with ‘Huffy’ – their first album in three years. From unashamedly romantic love songs to making deals, mortality and mental health, this record finds Keith Murray and Chris Cain offering their unique takes on all manner of subjects… Opening in typically frenetic fashion, ‘You’ve Lost Your Shit’ kicks off proceedings with…

We Are Scientists – ‘Fault Lines’


We Are Scientists have returned with ‘Fault Lines’. It follows the lockdown hit ‘I Cut My Own Hair’ and finds the band flirting with a glam-rock stomp that complements the funk-tinged and swaggering riffs and hooks – all in two and a half minutes. The lyrics, meanwhile, are deliberately oblique but seem to look at…